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Wendell Berry
Santa Ynez Valley, California “The Earth is what we all have in common.” – Wendell Berry If you’re an avid reader of my posts, then you’ve read quotes by Wendell Berry. Berry died Monday at the age of 92. He was born in 1934 in a small farming...
The Wild Locals
Moss Landing, California “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” — Mary Oliver We share our neighborhood with a community of ravens. In the early morning, we can hear them broadcasting the local news, their caws echoing from three or four directions,...
CLAUDE AND THE FAWN
Monterey Bay, Monterey, California When I was a child, my grandparents showed the family a silent, homemade film of my grandfather on his ranch in Wyoming. He was walking towards the barn, wearing his cowboy boots and hat and carrying a bucket with a big nipple...
Theodore Roosevelt
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt If we consider John Muir the moral conscience of the modern environmental movement, Theodore Roosevelt might be seen as its political ally. More than any other American...