— When one has lived a long time alone, one wants to live again among men and women, to return to that place where one’s ties with the human broke, where the disquiet of death and now also of history glimmers its firelight on faces, where the gaze [...]
Last night the Shook Twins sang a song in Hailey, Idaho about being free. I knew then that was the reason I always retreat to the woods; to be free. Free of society, free of rules, free of perception and free to find the essence of me. Spending time in the woods isn’t about running [...]
I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has the lonely lake I pray? And yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure tint of its waters. The sun is alone except in [...]
“I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.” — Gaylord Nelson former governor of Wisconsin, co-founder of Earth Day
Despite the life that lived in Enna, there was also a lot of holes inside of her, emptiness she tried to fill with love, with compassion, with drinking and with distraction with sex. After seeing her mother at the Rainbow Gathering, Enna had to decide what was important to her. She knew she could survive [...]
The Orchard is being billed by its publishers as the next Silent Spring. Silent Spring changed the way a generation viewed pesticides, helped get DDT banned and exposed the harmful effects of pesticides on the soil, waterways, wildlife and people. So to claim a book is the next expose on chemicals it to set the [...]
“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.” – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790), Poor Richard’s Almanac.
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