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certain respects, the retirees were cut in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt: they tried to further his mission to protect public land not for pristine wilderness but for the benefit of future generations. The principle of conservation has a longer history in Pennsylvania than almost anywhere else in America. The nineteenth-century movement arose out of
... See moreEliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
natural selection isn’t individual but mutual—that species survive only if they learn to be in community.
Joy Harjo • All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Maybe that’s why I feel that I live in exile. I used to live in a country that had a future.
Ursula K. Le Guin • No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
He always included plenty of facts and figures about wolves in his talks, but he found that stories about individual wolves were what moved people.
Nate Blakeslee • American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
We breathe the wild into our corporate work, our business creations, our decisions, our art, the work of our hands and hearts, our politics, spirituality, plans, homelife, education, industry, foreign affairs, freedoms, rights, and duties. The wild feminine is not only sustainable in all worlds; it sustains all worlds.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
This, the most widely distributed tree in North America with close kin on three continents, all at once feels unbearably rare. She
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
They continue on, into the mountains, sedately, like some kind of royal procession, the diplomatic arrival of a crowned couple. And it is historic, she thinks. It’s five hundred years since their extermination on the island. They are a distant memory, a mythical thing. Britain has altered radically, as has her iconography of wilderness, her totems.
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