"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day"

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  • The End of an Era, or the Beginning of a New? You Decide. 🤨🤔🧐

    Written by Josie Hammond and Liv Adao Helloooooo Tree Huggers. We hope you had a fun and fulfilling holiday break, even if you had to spend it without us and our posts. We’re wishing y’all the best in this new year and cheering y’all on, as always.  Today, we solemnly sit with tears in our

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  • All I Want for Christmas is Sustainability

    Written by Josie Hammond and Liv Adao Happy Holidays Tree Huggers! We want to dedicate this week’s post to giving you some tips and tricks we’ve learned over the years when it comes to enjoying your consumeristic holiday season while also feeling responsible and treating the earth with care. But first, let’s hear what Mary

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  • Hoot Hoot Says the Snowy Owl

    written by Josie Hammond and Liv Adao Helllooooo Tree Huggers! And welcome to another beautiful Mary Oliver Monday–winter edition! Now, technically, Winter won’t start until December 21st, but we don’t believe in that–we can see our breath outside, so it’s winter!! In light of this new chill that is settling over our home state, today

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  • Be Grateful While You’re Eating Your Plateful

    written by Liv Adao and Josie Hammond Treehuggers, with the leaves falling and the snoopy jazz playing, we all know what’s right around the corner–turkey time!!!! Or if you’re non-meat eaters like both of us, tofurkey!!! No matter what you might be gathering around the table to eat, the purpose of it all is the

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  • KPOP?? No, COP30!

    written by Josie Hammond and Liv Adao Good evening, fellow tree huggers! Merry Mary Oliver Monday to y’all, we hope you are starting your week on the right foot. Tonight, we will be discussing the COP30. Now, if you don’t know what that stands for, don’t fret. You are about to find out if you

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  • The Art of Looking

    written by Josie Hammond and Liv Adao Good evening, fellow tree huggers! We hope you had a marvelous Mary Oliver Monday. Long time no see, happy November! We have been soaking in these incredible crisp fall days and hope you are too. In fact, today, we had our first snow of the year in Nashville!

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  • Trees Galore!!

    written by Josie Hammond and Liv Adao Good evening, fellow tree huggers. It is a lovely Monday indeed, with the fall weather at its peak, and even the rain paying us a visit today. We are wishing you a blessed week ahead and a happy Halloween! Today, we want to talk about arguably our favorite

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  • Don’t be shyin’ away from dyin’

    Written by Josie Hammond and Liv Adao Given that it is the spooky season, we’d like to talk about the scariest thing we can think of–death! Yes, yes, we know this might be sort of a wild topic. But we’d like to offer an alternative view of the process. We here at Speak For The

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  • Happy Fall, Y’all–Don’t get too comfortable…

    The autumnal equinox has come and gone, treehugers, it’s officially fall! Congrats on making it through another hot, sticky summer! It’s time for orange leaves, pumpkin-flavored treats, and curling up under a blanket with some warm tea. But before you get too excited, we have some advice for how to make your fall a little

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  • Nature doesn’t need lanes

    Written by Josie Hammond and Liv Adao Good evening fellow Tree huggers! Happy Mary Oliver Monday, we are wishing yall a fantastic week. Today we are going to be talking about the Roadless Rule. But first some wisdom from our goat Mary Oliver. Mary Oliver motivates us to understand the power of our actions and

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