Marianne Karsh, director of Arborvitae, is a Professional Forester and Researcher. She has a Master’s Degree in Forestry from the University of Toronto and has worked as a Forest Research Scientist in Ontario, Newfoundland and Iceland. Marianne Karsh has been speaking with groups and giving seminars and leading nature and spirituality field trips since the early 1980's. She has worked with youth, ages 18 to 25, and also with adults in the 30 to 70 year age group. Marianne Karsh has written in this field and is co-author of “Trees, Forestry and the Responsiveness of Creation”, published in This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature and the Environment (1996), an anthology of well-known authors in the field of eco-spirituality and widely used as a textbook in the U.S. She was interviewed by Citizens for Public Justice on the connection between just relations with people and the earth and participated in an environmental task force which focused on economic development in Ontario and its potential impacts on the environment. Nature and Spirituality Instructor
Photo by MalakMarianne Karsh, B.Sc.F, M.Sc.F.
In 1998, Marianne Karsh developed an innovative and successful 8-week course on Nature and Spirituality and has been instructing the Nature and Spirituality component of “Becoming An Outdoor’s Woman” Program in Newfoundland for three consecutive years. She combines more than a decade of experience as a research scientist and forester with over 10 years of study and reflection about the ways in which nature enhances our spirituality.
Nature as Thou
Trees, Forestry and the Responsiveness of Creation
by Brian Walsh, Marianne Karsh and Nik Ansell.
Article Review by Nancy M. Malone, Cross Currents
Summer 1994
The authors of “Trees, Forestry, and the Responsiveness of Creation” - like Stringfellow - take the Bible seriously, not literally, but seriously; they take “all the trees of the field will clap their hands,” for example, to be something more than mere metaphor. And they also surprise, by positing in nature a certain kind of agency, one that reconstrues our relationship to it - no longer as I-It, but I-Thou.
"Trees, Forestry, and the Responsiveness of Creation" was later published as a book chapter in "This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment."
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