Dr. Renatus Derbidge
Dr. Renatus Derbidge is a nature writer, beekeeper, and guide to Scottish wild and sacred places. Trained as a biologist and in Goethean science, he practices a phenomenological, contemplative approach to land and animals. Through his project Sacred Isles (knowyourself.land), he helps people meet landscapes and other-than-human beings as part of a shared soul-landscape and a living spiritual ecology.
Can Anything Still Touch Us?
Journal Article
A single wildlife photograph stops a writer mid-scroll, breaking through the numbness of our image-saturated lives. Confronted by a sloth clinging to a fencepost in fragmented habitat, he explores what it means to still be touched—by grief, tenderness, kinship—and what such moments ask of us.