Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, … Read more
When you visit the west in the late summer or early fall, there’s a good chance you’ll run into some smoke from wildfires…it’s just been a common thing over the last few years. On this morning in August in Badlands National Park, the sunrise was dramatically diffused by the hazy smoke. Sunsets too would end … Read more
“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”~ Henry David Thoreau
This ram has seen a few years…butted a few heads…and made his presence known with a dominance that has endured the tests of time. On this frosty morning in the badlands of South Dakota, his exhales appeared to turn to steam…he’s a tough old dude.
“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.” ― Theodore Roosevelt I think of Roosevelt often … Read more
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed … We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”― Wallace Stegner