Welcome, wanderer.Stories shaped by wonder, memory, imagination, and the belief that the world around us is alive.
Inspired by indigenous wisdom and the understanding that Earth's ecosystems are not resources to exploit, but living family to protect.
Inspired by Indigenous wisdom. We listen, we learn — we do not speak for them.
Every story begins with someone willing to listen.
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Young Explorers
Every adventure begins with a question, a little courage, and a few unforgettable friends. Choose a book below to begin the journey.
Meet the Companions
Big-hearted, gentle, and always ready to help, Bob never travels without his trusty green backpack. He is the steady heart of every adventure.
Fast, fearless, and full of energy, Lola is usually the first one to leap into adventure. Her orange neckerchief is her signature — and her spirit.
Quiet and curious, Tico notices the little things others miss. He never takes off his blue beret — and he sees farther than anyone.
Small but wise, Hope reminds everyone that even the tiniest voice can make a big difference — and introduces children to careers they never knew existed.
Deeper Roots
Some stories are written for children.
Others are written for the adults they become.
Deep Roots is a growing collection of reflections, letters, and books that explore memory, belonging, grief, ecology, technology, and our relationship with the living world. These works ask what we might remember about ourselves if we learned to listen more carefully — to the land, to one another, and to the stories we carry.
The library is just beginning. Welcome.
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Field Notes
A quiet journal — reflections, observations, memories, and essays exploring the relationship between people, place, nature, and belonging.
The River I Thought Would Wait for Me
There are places that become part of your body before you are old enough to understand what they are. For me, it was a river. I grew up beside it in the Dominican Republic. Not near it. Beside it.
Read more →The Promise I Made to Two Small Lives
I was not in the best place when the dogs came into my life. At the time, I was going out too much, staying distracted, moving through life without much structure.
Read more →What Happens When Ancient Wisdom Guides Modern Intelligence
People often talk about artificial intelligence as if it will somehow solve the environmental crisis on its own. I don't think it works that way. A tool is still a tool.
Read more →Junior Guarionex Fajardo
I lost a river before I knew how to save it.
As a boy in the Dominican Republic, I grew up beside a river that felt alive. I knew where the water ran coldest, where the minnows gathered, and how the light moved through the mangroves at sunset. The land was never just scenery to me. It was relationship. It was memory. It was family.
Years later, I returned home expecting to care for my dying father. Instead, I found myself grieving two losses at once.
And the river I loved was gone.
Not dried up. Destroyed. Polluted beyond recognition.
No one tells you that grief for a place can feel exactly like grief for a person.
That loss became the beginning of Voices of the Earth. I began asking myself a question that would shape everything I created afterward:
Not through fear. Fear makes us look away.
Through story. Story makes us belong.
Voices of the Earth grew from that belief — a storytelling universe inspired by wonder, memory, imagination, indigenous wisdom, and the understanding that the ecosystems of the Earth are not resources to exploit, but living family to protect.
I am not a scientist, and I do not speak for Indigenous people or traditions. I write from the perspective of someone who grew up carrying a deep relationship with the land, and who continues learning from the people and cultures that have protected that relationship for generations.
My middle name, Guarionex, comes from a Taíno leader of the Caribbean. Though much was taken through colonization, some things survived — in stories, in names, in farming traditions, and in the belief that humanity is not separate from nature, but part of it.
That inheritance lives in every page I write.
Through children's books, reflections, environmental art, and stained-glass-inspired worlds, I hope to create stories that help readers of all ages feel wonder again — and through that wonder, connection.
Today, Voices of the Earth continues to grow through books, art, journals, and storytelling projects created to inspire curiosity, healing, and care for the living world around us.
Available for school visits, library readings, keynotes, and TEDx-style talks.
I am still listening.
— Junior Guarionex Fajardo
Sculpture & Mixed Media
Selected Works 2024 — 2025
Paintings & Works on Canvas
Selected Works 2020 — 2024
Additional works available. Contact for the complete catalogue.
For inquiries about available works, collaborations, or exhibitions:
voicesoftheplanet@mail.com