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An Obituary for the Land
“To the power of these burning, illuminated western lands who have shaped our character, inspired our souls, and restored our belief in what is beautiful and enduring—I will never write your obituary—because even…
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Songs of Homecoming
“When I was a skinny kid in short pants, butterflies entered my soul.” Michael McCarthy
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Woodland Sunflowers in Early Morning Light
“The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow and woodland, of hickory and oak and maple and hemlock and…
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These Boots are Made for Walking
“There is a wealth of wisdom that we may thus find, if we but place our foot outside the door, taking the first step upon a journey toward a new adventure.” Keith Badger…
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Our Relationship with Water
“‘Women have a natural bond with water, because we are both life bearers,’ my sister said. ‘We carry our babies in internal ponds and they come forth into the world on a wave…
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Pretend Soup
What would the world be, once bereftOf wet and of wildness? Let them be left,O let them be left, wildness and wet;Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. Gerard Hopkins
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Connections
“This we know. The Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the Earth. All things are connected, like the blood that unites one family. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children…
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Crazy Time
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. Wendell Berry from "The Peace of Wild…
