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Comment on Heat, Prey, and Working on a New Florida Love by Precipitate « Fear and Nature

Precipitate « Fear and Nature — Fri, 04 May 2012 11:28:08 +0000

[...] to have read all my posts, you may remember that my first one started out with a rather amusing inquiry from an elderly neighbor about whether I might like to see his peacock. Thinking the worst, my immediate reaction was to [...]

Comment on Poetry: Dickey by sherry o'keefe

sherry o'keefe — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:33:29 +0000

i’ve been hungry for poetry like this. the dots spread out and yet they connect.

sherry o’keefe

Comment on Fleeing to the Woods, or, Giving Thoreau His Bite Back by Precipitate « The Hunger Games’ Unintentional Celebration of Wild Spaces

Precipitate « The Hunger Games’ Unintentional Celebration of Wild Spaces — Wed, 02 May 2012 00:38:04 +0000

[...] Rather, there is an idea that runs through the background of The Hunger Games and that ties into my previous post about returning to the rough edges of American Romanticism, an idea that I think provides a rich [...]

Comment on So Long, Farewell: The Final Wander through the Woods by Mary MacVaugh

Mary MacVaugh — Tue, 01 May 2012 04:02:48 +0000

I’m am glad this will not be your last blog as they open our eyes to areas, history, thoughts, etc. that we
will miss. Thank you for completing your schooling and moving on but still continuing to give us your thoughts.
I am very proud of all you have done.

Comment on Fleeing to the Woods, or, Giving Thoreau His Bite Back by Precipitate « So Long, Farewell: The Final Wander through the Woods

Precipitate « So Long, Farewell: The Final Wander through the Woods — Tue, 01 May 2012 01:29:19 +0000

[...] When I wrote last month about an English Department proposal to create a Ph.D. program with an environmental concentration and literature core, the post ended with me advocating for a Ph.D. that taught candidates to be “active, well-informed, and thoughtful walkers.” Can you name an environmental thinker in the last two centuries who hasn’t been a walker actively pursuing full bodily–that is, full sensory–immersion in the outdoors? Of course, I think of Henry David Thoreau and John Muir, the American nature writers and wilderness icons Christopher Zumski Finke wrote so eloquently about in “Fleeing to the Woods, or, Giving Thoreau His Bite Back.” [...]

Comment on Nonfiction: Sather by Talyn Debus-Villasenor

Talyn Debus-Villasenor — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:53:32 +0000

Kelsey, this was beautiful. Keep up the amazing work!

Comment on Fleeing to the Woods, or, Giving Thoreau His Bite Back by HDT, Slavery, and a water-lily « This Earth Nature Blog

HDT, Slavery, and a water-lily « This Earth Nature Blog — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:19:15 +0000

[...] today’s Third Ten Million Years post, I wrote that “Thoreau recognized the horrors around him.” To illustrate this, I linked [...]

Comment on some thoughts on human tragedy by HDT, Slavery, and a water-lily « This Earth Nature Blog

HDT, Slavery, and a water-lily « This Earth Nature Blog — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:14:41 +0000

[...] have been writing a great deal of late about human violence, how we can understand it, and how it relates to our perception of nature and the [...]

Comment on Cutting Off Your Nose To Spite Your Face by czfinke

czfinke — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:03:24 +0000

Let’s make the pipes pipe dreams. Nice.

I had to comment on the story with the wind turbine. Renewables/wind in the Midwest being my job, I spend a lot of hours listening to folks oppose turbines. Warms my heart every time someone says: these are part of the solution and are good.

-czf

Comment on Hunting One’s Way to the Connection Perception by Precipitate « Cutting Off Your Nose To Spite Your Face

Precipitate « Cutting Off Your Nose To Spite Your Face — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:57:07 +0000

[...] and I have both written about the importance of stewardship to most hunters. The agencies that maintain state parks usually have conservation in the name. It’s about [...]