
Ancient Forest National Park proposal would join together wild lands of Southern Oregon and Northern California into one management area to help protect old growth forest wildlife through the coming years of climate change.
The End of Alone - The Boston GlobeSource: The Boston Globe
With all the technology at our fingertips, are we ever alone? Is it really good for us to be so connected that solitude is nearly impossible?

Years ago my daughter gave me a book called "365 Tao Daily Meditations" by Deng Ming Dao. I read one page per day and then put it away and forgot about it. On new year's eve I found it again and found an inner beauty I had not seen before.
Bureau Proposes Opening Up Utah Wilderness to DrillingSource: t r u t h o u t
The federal Bureau of Land Management is reviving plans to sell oil and gas leases in pristine wilderness areas in eastern Utah that have long been protected from development, according to a notice posted this week on the agency's Web site.
The rewards of the hermitSource: Guardian Unlimited
For any soul contemplating the hermitic existence, I could do no better than recommend the far north-west of Scotland. Further east the landscape is barren, flattened by fierce Atlantic winds.

We all tend to take the place where we live for granted. Often we are likely to complain about the services, or lack of them, the things we can't have, or things that annoy us.

Vicissitudes of Solitude: Inner and Outer

Vicissitudes of Solitude: Inner and Outer