Felted Snow Leopard
Snow leopards are nearly impossible to spot in the wild because they blend into their surroundings, but also because—much like me—they are never in one place for long.
A snow leopard doesn’t migrate, per se, but is constantly on the move around its enormous home range.
Snow leopards are solitary, so, like most humans, they make their decisions to move based on intuition and preference rather than following the herd.
They often travel along ridge lines and choose their bedding sites with palatial views over the surrounding terrain (like us, snow leopards put a high value on a good view).
To be a snow leopard is to be in motion. Unlike migrating animals, they don’t stop and hang out once they’ve reached their destination; they just keep on prowling.
Like humans, they’re natural explorers.
I thought about how being a person, to be alive really, is to be constantly shifting—with seasons, with work, with health, with romance, with the siren song of sunshine or proximity to water.
Those of us who can’t sit still may feel like there’s something wrong with us, but restlessness is how our world erupted in varied languages and cultures and dreams.
Like snow leopards, humans are drifting, traveling, ever-changing creatures who often struggle to master permanency. For some of us, we stop living when we stop moving. Humans evolved impeccably to adapt.
We too wander around land with the range of a snow leopard, and yet we have stronger sentimental attachments to where we’ve come from.
A textbook chart shows that Homo sapiens made their way from central Africa to West Asia, then up to the Arctic Circle. Another group broke off and joined those indigenous to South Asia in Australia.
While these big moves happened over centuries without the help of a moving truck, they still must have involved so much grief.
To be a human is to say goodbye a lot.
Snow leopards are nearly impossible to spot in the wild because they blend into their surroundings, but also because—much like me—they are never in one place for long.
A snow leopard doesn’t migrate, per se, but is constantly on the move around its enormous home range.
Snow leopards are solitary, so, like most humans, they make their decisions to move based on intuition and preference rather than following the herd.
They often travel along ridge lines and choose their bedding sites with palatial views over the surrounding terrain (like us, snow leopards put a high value on a good view).
To be a snow leopard is to be in motion. Unlike migrating animals, they don’t stop and hang out once they’ve reached their destination; they just keep on prowling.
Like humans, they’re natural explorers.
I thought about how being a person, to be alive really, is to be constantly shifting—with seasons, with work, with health, with romance, with the siren song of sunshine or proximity to water.
Those of us who can’t sit still may feel like there’s something wrong with us, but restlessness is how our world erupted in varied languages and cultures and dreams.
Like snow leopards, humans are drifting, traveling, ever-changing creatures who often struggle to master permanency. For some of us, we stop living when we stop moving. Humans evolved impeccably to adapt.
We too wander around land with the range of a snow leopard, and yet we have stronger sentimental attachments to where we’ve come from.
A textbook chart shows that Homo sapiens made their way from central Africa to West Asia, then up to the Arctic Circle. Another group broke off and joined those indigenous to South Asia in Australia.
While these big moves happened over centuries without the help of a moving truck, they still must have involved so much grief.
To be a human is to say goodbye a lot.
Snow leopards are nearly impossible to spot in the wild because they blend into their surroundings, but also because—much like me—they are never in one place for long.
A snow leopard doesn’t migrate, per se, but is constantly on the move around its enormous home range.
Snow leopards are solitary, so, like most humans, they make their decisions to move based on intuition and preference rather than following the herd.
They often travel along ridge lines and choose their bedding sites with palatial views over the surrounding terrain (like us, snow leopards put a high value on a good view).
To be a snow leopard is to be in motion. Unlike migrating animals, they don’t stop and hang out once they’ve reached their destination; they just keep on prowling.
Like humans, they’re natural explorers.
I thought about how being a person, to be alive really, is to be constantly shifting—with seasons, with work, with health, with romance, with the siren song of sunshine or proximity to water.
Those of us who can’t sit still may feel like there’s something wrong with us, but restlessness is how our world erupted in varied languages and cultures and dreams.
Like snow leopards, humans are drifting, traveling, ever-changing creatures who often struggle to master permanency. For some of us, we stop living when we stop moving. Humans evolved impeccably to adapt.
We too wander around land with the range of a snow leopard, and yet we have stronger sentimental attachments to where we’ve come from.
A textbook chart shows that Homo sapiens made their way from central Africa to West Asia, then up to the Arctic Circle. Another group broke off and joined those indigenous to South Asia in Australia.
While these big moves happened over centuries without the help of a moving truck, they still must have involved so much grief.
To be a human is to say goodbye a lot.