Recommended Articles
The word-hoard: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscape
TheGuardian.com | Feb 2015
And Speaking of Robert Macfarlane, here’s one of my favorite quotes from him:
“Ultimately and most importantly, mountains quicken our sense of wonder. The true blessing of mountains is not that they provide a challenge or a contest, something to be overcome and dominated (although this is how many people have approached them). It is that they offer something gentler and infinitely more powerful: they make us ready to credit marvels – whether it is the dark swirls which water makes beneath a plate of ice, or the feel of the soft pelts of moss which form on the lee sides of boulders and trees. Being in the mountains reignites our astonishment at the simplest transactions of the physical world: a snowflake a millionth of an ounce in weight falling on to one’s outstretched palm, water patiently carving a tunnel in a face of granite, the apparently motiveless shift of a stone in a scree-filled gully. To put a hand down and feel the ridges and scores in a rock where a glacier has passed, to hear how a hillside comes alive with moving water after a rain shower, to see late summer light filling miles of landscape like an inexhaustible liquid – none of these is a trivial experience. Mountains return to us the priceless capacity for wonder which can so insensibly be leaved away by modern existence, and they urge us to apply that wonder to our own everyday lives.”
— Robert MacFarlane
Videos I Love
We all know how much harm people can do to the environment—but sometimes people do something very good. Here is a wonderful, inspiring example of a family who saved a great whale … and got a special surprise in return.
And speaking of whales, I love this video from Sustainable Human – How Whales Change Climate.
Here’s a beautiful video about Aurora Borealis.
Links to Other Videos
- Ryan’s Pollution Solution – Ocean Conservancy
- Some Strange Things Are Happening To Astronauts Returning To Earth – Upworthy
Wilderness & Nature Links
- The Wilderness Society
- Save the Redwoods League
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- The Nature Conservancy
- Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund
- The Conservation Fund
- The Jane Goodall Institute
- Riverkeeper
- Alaska Conservation Foundation
- The Wilderness Land Trust
Other Favorites!
- The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes
- Makindu Children’s Center of Africa
- The Boulder Book Store
- Easter Island Foundation
- Echo River Rafting Adventures
- Unplugged Play by Bobbi Conner
- Central Asia Institute