Cronon, William, “The Trouble with Wilderness or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature”, Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature ed. William Cronon, (W.W. Norton 1995)

Idealizing a distant wilderness too often means not idealizing the environment in which we actually live, the landscape that for …

Ehrlich, Gretel, “On Water”, “The Solace of Open Spaces” (Viking 1985)

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid …

Ehrlich, Gretel, “On Water”, “The Solace of Open Spaces” (Viking 1985)

There is nothing in nature that can’t be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration. Cascading water equates …

Williams, Terry Tempest, “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place” (Vintage 2001)

The landscapes we know and return to become places of solace. We are drawn to them because of the stories …