During this hike we will bring along the poetry of Pattiann Rogers.

As we follow the trail, stopping at different points along the way to listen to a poem, we’ll consider the roles of witnessing, praise and language in how we perceive the natural world (and therefore in how we see ourselves). We’ll explore how, through a cultivation of precise scientific knowledge and poetic sensibility, through a kind of ecstatic cataloguing, Rogers shows us that the spiritual is inherent in the natural world. Roger’s work suggests that science and the spiritual are not separate and that we can learn to see the places we inhabit as “charged with the presence of the holy” in order to recover an attitude of respect and responsibility.