Outdoors
In the mountains, deserts, forests, and on the water.
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One Utopia: More wilderness
Ken Ilgunas’ utopia for North America: A stable population of 100 million humans (a mostly arbitrary number), mostly clustered in metropolitan areas, eating the best,…
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Nothing Gold Can Stay: Transience
Nature’s first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold Her early leaf’s a flower But only holds an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf…
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Against Binoculars
I have nothing against birds. Unlike birdwatchers, I’m more interested in their personalities than their looks. I’m incapable of watching them and not ascribing a…
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Peace Comes Dropping Slow
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows I will…
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The Woods are Lovely, Dark, and Deep
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his…
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Bears
Talk with backpackers anywhere in the Western United States, and eventually bears will come up. I’ve come across bears a few times and they now…
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