Day 4: Wildlands
byAt a recent Au Sable Graduate Fellows‘ Conference graduate students in the sciences were challenged to translate their research into a prayer of confession—to…
Wilderness
The Aggregate for November 8
byThe EcoTheo Aggregate brings you great eco-content from around the web every week. Follow us, or send your ideas, #ETRaggregate or theaggregate@ecotheo.org Halloween Hangover As those…
To be whole…
byTo be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we…
Guts, Blasphemy, and Humble Pie
byIf you are feeling the need to have an elevated sense of personal importance today, this is not the column for you. Just stop now. This is an article about why you aren’t so special. Still reading? You’re the worst. Just kidding. Sort of.
On Grizzlies and Gratitude
byGrizzlies are wilderness incarnate. – Doug Peacock, Grizzly Years In September of 2003, Timothy Treadwell and his companion, Amie Huguenard, were mauled and eaten…
Thoughts from an Entitled Wilderness-Loving Yuppie
byThis is the second installment in an ongoing series on Wilderness Pilgrimage. A few weeks ago I joined some friends for an overnight on…
On Toilet Paper, Thru-hiking, and Wilderness Pilgrimage
byThis is the first installment in a series on Wilderness Pilgrimage. I’ve now backpacked around 4,000 miles, and I sometimes wonder what I have…