Earthly Reads: Marcia Bjornerud on Turning to Stone S1:3

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🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Join us with Marcia Bjornerud for a brilliant conversation on a life dedicated to the physical Earth. This conversation is the third episode for our new Earthly Reads series. Together, Ayana and Marcia discuss Marcia’s new book, Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks, and contemplate a life lived in conversation with the very Earth that holds us. Marcia offers us her grounding presence and her awareness of geologic time cycles that churn beyond human perception. Earthly Re...

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0:00.0	Hey for the wild community, Iana here.
0:11.5	Welcome to the third episode of our new book study series, earthly reads,
0:16.3	where we'll learn alongside some of our most beloved authors.
0:20.5	After listening to the shorter conversation,
0:22.9	head over to For The Wild.org slash book study to learn more and to purchase access to the full
0:28.9	course. We'll be offering significantly more content and access to live recorded conversations
0:35.1	with the authors on our website.
0:38.8	We hope to see you there.
0:48.7	If we could just take ourselves out of ourselves long enough to see humanity and proper proportion in space and time,
0:53.7	we'd be happier, we'd treat each other better,
0:57.0	we'd actually have much more joy.
1:02.0	And so I'm just trying to give people some glimpse of this great wild world of rock that is out there just patiently waiting for us to be receptive
1:15.4	to it again.
1:35.9	Hello and welcome to For the Wild. I'm Ayanna Young. Today we are speaking with returning guest Marcia Bjornrude about her book Turning to Stone, discovering the subtle wisdom of rocks. Well,
1:42.7	Marcia, thank you so much for spending some deep time with us today.
1:47.3	Well, I'm happy to be back with you, Ayanna. As we begin, I'm wondering if you can give us a little
1:53.2	background about yourself for our audience and maybe speak to the location you wrote Turning to Stone
2:00.1	from and where you are now.
2:02.1	Well, I'm a geologist and specifically a structural geologist.
2:06.1	I study how mountains grow.
2:09.0	And I'm in Wisconsin, which might not occur to people as the ideal place to study mountains,
2:14.5	but in fact, we have some deeply eroded ancient mountain belts that afford
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