After a category 5 hurricane, nature saved me. It has the power to save us all | Michael Lees

Maria devastated Dominica. But the islanders’ connection to the natural world gave them a resilience the west can’t matchIn June 2017, I packed up some basic tools, religious texts and my camera gear, and headed back home to the Caribbean island of Dominica. A year earlier, while living in New York, a simple question had started to dominate my thinking: what if the life we humans were happiest in was back in the so-called ‘“Garden of Eden?’” When we lived in s