nature

  • Are people part of nature?

    Ralph Maughan

    Is this a question for science? I increasingly read articles or hear it said that we must learn (or remember) that humans are part of nature too. This is because, it is often argued, we share so much with other animals. The differences between us are only matters of degree, not of kind.  Those who argue…

  • Anthropocene Boosters and the Attack on Wilderness Conservation

    George Wuerthner

    A growing debate has serious consequences for our collective relationship to Nature. Beginning perhaps twenty years ago, a number of academics in disciplines such as history, anthropology, and geography, began to question whether there was any tangible wilderness or wild lands left on Earth. These academics, and others, have argued that humans have so completely…

  • Wildlife, fear, and real life

    Ralph Maughan

    Politicians play to the incoherent fears of wimpy folks. This is bad for protecting the planet and its wildlife- Just two months ago many Americans feared they would soon be stricken by dread Ebola and those who survived would have their heads lopped off by ISIS. Fortunately a cure was deployed for both Ebola and…

  • The Moral Call of the Wild

    Ralph Maughan

    A study suggests that spending time in nature changes our values- The Moral Call of the Wild. By P. Wesley Schultz. Scientific American. Being outside almost always improves my mood, and a lot of my best ideas have come in the wide open spaces, not sitting at a desk or computer.  The outdoors seems more…

  • Children increasingly disconnected from nature

    Ralph Maughan

    Some of my very first and best memories (I must have been about 3 years old) are of the outdoors. By that I don’t mean the lawn or a favorite tree. My grandfather located and developed mining properties . . . unsuccessfully when I was boy because he was in his mid-70s, but he recruited…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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