Contents and Excerpts
(Links to Excerpts in Blue)
(Links to Excerpts in Blue)
Foreword by Elizabeth Roberts
Acknowledgments
Antler / Catching the Sunrise
Dolores LaChapelle / On the Blue Glacier
Joan Halifax / The Way of the Mountain
John Daniel / In Praise
Brenda Peterson / The Water Way
Chris Hoffman / Kenai Fjords
David Whyte / Ten Years Later
Bill Weiler / The Land: A Sense of Home
Michael J. Roads / The Spirit of the Forest
Robert Bly / Solitude Late at Night in the Woods
II. Quests and Rituals of Renewal
Lauren L. Dasmann, interview with John P. Milton / A Sacred Passage
Anne Stine / Wilderness Kinship
Steven Foster / The Morning of the Last Day
Brooke Medicine-Eagle / Song of the Earth
Christopher Manes / Viking Hiking
Gary Snyder / On Climbing the Sierra Matterhorn Again
after Thirty-One Years
Fred Swinney/Graywolf / Beyond the Quest: Bringing It Back
Elias Amidon / Praying in Death Valley: A Letter to My Father
Forrest Craver, interview with John Stokes / Finding Our Place on Earth Again: An Interview with John Stokes
Anngwyn St. Just / Healing the Wounded Feminine through the Natural World
Maxine Kumin / October, Yellowstone Park
Thomas Lowe Fleischner / Pipit Lake
Gabriel Heilig / A Walk with the King
Lorraine Anderson / Wilderness in the Blood
Jed Swift / Bonded by Spirit on Broken Hand
Janet Lowe / North McKittrick Canyon
Judith Minty / Prowling the Ridge
Paul Willis / Madulee Cabin: A Fantasy
Joseph Bruchac / In Wilderness
Fred Donaldson / Two Looks Away: The Art of Seeing and Belonging
Monica Woelfel / Waiting at the Surface
Jim Noll man / Making Media, Not Making Media
Howard Nelson I Swimming with Loons
Ted Kerasote / Bloodties
Doug Elliott / The Night of the Living Skunk
Barbara Dean / Intersection: A Meeting with a Mountain Lion
Deena Metzger / Mandlovu
Judith Minty / Killing the Bear
Joseph Jastrab / Coming Home
Saul Weisberg / Rain's Song to the Cedar: Teaching in Wilderness
John Miles / The Students of Albert Camp
Bob Henderson / Thoughts on the Idea of Adventure
Willy Whitefeather / Kids’ Camp
J. Gary Knowles / Reflections on an Outdoor Education Experience
Michael J. Cohen / Wilderness Revisited: The Twilights Last Gleaming
VI In Mourning, Defense, and Celebration of the Earth
Wendell Berry / The Peace of Wild Things
Kaia Svien, interview with John Seed / In the Eye of the Hurricane: An Interview with John Seed
Constance Perenyi / One by One
Eric Paul Shaffer I The Pasar Burung
Lou Gold / Bald Mountain Vigil
Anne LaBastille / The Gift of Silence
Robin Boyd / Ocean Song
Matthew Fox / Bringing Nature and Grace Together Again
David Lee / Alpine Pond, Cedar Breaks
John Daniel / The Beauty of the Wild
David Whyte / Alone in the Forest
VII. Extra-Ordinary Wilderness
David Oates / The Practice of the Presence of the Wild
Deena Metzger / A Lake in the Mind
David Abram / Deep Ecology and Wonder: Notes of a Sleight-of-Hand Sorcerer
Serge King / Voices of the Forest
Nancy Wood / “The tree in winter is like”
Roger Dunsmore / Fusion: The Soul Is Composed of the External World
Elan Shapiro / Back-Home Pilgrimage
Jeff Poniewaz / Watering the Garden
Steven Harper / Mystery, Humility and the Wild
Laura Carrithers / Uncivilized
Terry Tempest Williams / Buried Poems
VIII. Wilderness Ethics: An Emerging Perspective
Jesse Wolf Hardin / The Dance
Renee Soule / Wilderness Ecopsychology: The Art of Sacred Survival
Roderick Nash / Wilderness Reconsidered
James Swan / Kinship with Nature
Diane Sylvain / We Can’t Own It All
Belden C. Lane / Fierce Landscapes and the Indifference of God
Appendix of Wilderness Resources