QCP #017 | Tom Brown III | How Reconnecting with Nature Teaches Resilience, Self-Reliance, and Awareness

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Tom Brown III is the founder of FutureNature and T3Photography. He is a lifelong practitioner and living guide of ancestral skills, a frequent contributor, and a consultant to the Anchored Outdoors network. As a lifelong practitioner of ancestral skills under his father Tom Brown Jr. - prolific author and Founder of Tracker Wilderness Survival School. 

Tom has devoted his life to passing on his knowledge of these skills. He works diligently as an educator, a steward of the land, to help return the connection to the natural world and awareness back to our wild selves.

He joins us from his homestead in Oregon by Mount Hood - his home base for sharing his knowledge and experience through teaching, writing, and photography. He hopes to, in his words, "help people see Nature through his eyes, leading them to understand that spectacular natural beauty can be found anywhere, no matter where you may be."

I believe that our ability to be resilient is not gone; it's simply re-awakening what we already have innately in us through the examples of how our ancestors lived and what people like Tom bring to light. To recognize our abundance, that we do have it all, and that there is always much to learn about our home here on earth and how to undo our distractions, even if only a little bit, to become better stewards of the land.

It was an honor to sit with Tom III and listen intently as he shared his passion for learning and sharing some of the knowledge passed on to him by his father, Tom Brown Jr., and his grandfather, Stalking Wolf, who taught his father. And it was also great to hear some perspective from someone who, through his lifetime devotion to a life outdoors and educating others to find their own way in life, figures out ways of balancing both modern and primitive aspects of our human experience.

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TOM BROWN III LINKS AND MORE INFORMATION

• Find Tom's work and more information here https://www.tombrown3.com/
• Tom demos the Proper way to walk in Nature
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EPISODE NOTES | MENTIONS

• Anchored Outdoors
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind, by Yuval Noah Harrari
• Tom’s education
• Tom’s teaching style
• Tom on failure
• Paiute Native Americans
• Stalking Wolf
• Tom Brown Jr.
  • Tom Brown Jr. Books
• Hunter-gatherer societies
• The Rational optimist by Matt Ridley
• Arguments in Climate Change
• Benefits of Being in Nature
• Pine Needle Tea
• Castaway Movie
• Nomads that Survived Tsunami
• Steller's Jay
• 1491 by Charles C. Mann
• Baseline vs Disruption
• Camas
• Starlink
• Go Bag
• Homesteading
• Factory Farming
• Survival Show Phonies
• Les Stroud Survivorman
• Deep Survival Laurence Gonzales
• Dune - Frank Herbert
• Marcus Aurelius - “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
• Bob Marshall Wilderness
• Trackers Earth - Bay Area Wilderness Survival Courses
• Chronic Wasting Disease
  • Prion Disease
• Sit Spots