I’ve just finished reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver. It is the account of her family’s one year experiment in eating locally grown food (theirs and others nearby). In order to do this, they moved from Arizona to Virginia. They already owned an old family farm in the Virginia countryside, so they didn’t [...]

    “Thoreau was a self-taught naturalist and writer . . . and he had learned how to use both his learning and his imagination to uncover the hidden life of places. For him writing was a form of discovery . . . and like him we can learn to use writing as a window into [...]

May is National Wetlands Month, and wetlands arise from the presence of water. This month has seen an unending upward surge in the price of gasoline. Therefore, the following quotes from David W. Orr are appropriate:
“Oil and water have had contrary affect on our minds. . . [...]

    Here is another excellent article on the growing awareness of children’s lack of exposure to nature, from The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07137/786527-51.stm

    “The formative years of bonding with the earth include three stages of development that should be of primary concern to parents and teachers: early childhood from ages four to seven, the elementary years from eight to eleven, and early adolescence from twelve to fifteen . . . my belief is that environmental education should [...]

    “I suggest that at all levels of learning K through PhD, some part of the curriculum be given to the study of natural systems . . . in the manner in which we experience
them. . . . the idea is . . . that we take our senses seriously throughout education at all levels [...]

    I’m happy to hear of the proposed New Vrindaban devotee excursion to see a Bread & Puppet performance. At my first Vermont College (then part of Norwich Univ.) residency, our group adviser took us to Glover to visit the B & P home base. Glover is in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, so named because it [...]