Rock On
This past weekend the National Park Service (NPS) hosted me at Grand Canyon, and I gave the keynote talk for its Earth Day celebration to...
The Beauty-Death Transaction
Crazy gorgeousness, check. At Duxbury Reef in Bolinas early yesterday morning, a super low tide pulled back the covers not only on all...
Get Back, Loretta
I shared a booth with three other writers at the Tucson Festival of Books recently—an enormous and idiosyncratic celebration each year on...
Bear With Me in the Utne Reader
Realizing the Vision Change Our Story Mind the Gap The Spine of the Continent: Protecting Grizzly Bears The Spine of the Continent is a...
Hot Flash (From Outside Magazine)
John Davis Sets Off to Hike, Paddle, and Bike the Spine of the Continent By Adventure Ethics John Davis paddling in Congaree National...
Natural Inheritance
Robert Paine is a super-famous ecologist, the first person to really nail down the process known as a “trophic cascade,” by which top...
Nature’s Tipping Point—Part 1
Over the next several weeks I’m going to intersperse my usual kinds of blogs with a series featuring Michael Soule. Michael is widely...
Timeless
The other night an old friend from LA was in town and came to dinner. He’d just finished adapting a nonfiction memoir for the screen –...
The End of Love
Marilyn Yalom proposes How the French Invented Love, giving us “Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance,” and then she brings us up to...
Strange Bird
It would seem that all animal species have deep totemic significance not only in indigenous cultures but in Christian, Islamic, Judaic,...
