The balsam roots are tossing in the wind.This grassland is on a hill because it is created by hills. Wind and water never stop moving there, powered by the turning of the […]
Badgers: Gardeners of the Sun
The Sun Rises
The heart rises with it. Sunrise Over the White Lake Hills That’s the way it is on this earth, for creatures born to it.
100 Photographs for World Water Day
For the love of water and the love of life, I’ve collected a few photos from here and from http://www.afarminiceland.com. (click on each image for title and to enlarge) … I’m off to […]
A Green Dictionary of the Earth
Today I’m proud to bring you The Green Earth Dictionary at earthwords.net. It is a collection of English words that come from a time in which earth knowledge was strong among English speakers […]
Of Humans and the Earth
Recently, I gave the Fourth Annual Haig-Brown Memorial Lecture in Environmental Writing, in which I argued for, among other things, the inclusion of other species into personhood and human identity, and demonstrated […]
Beyond David Suzuki
My friend Claude has reminded me of David Suzuki’s observation: “We need air to live, we need water to live, we need food to live. If we continue to destroy all these […]
It is So Good to be Home
I now have two homes on this earth. Just look at them both in this spring full of light. First, my home in the middle of the North Atlantic … Spring […]
Respect and Honour
Glacial water, treeless mountains, hardy birches on the shore … 10,000 years ago the Okanagan looked like this. Hallormstaður, Iceland Notice the lack of waterfront houses. That was done out of respect. […]
The Museum and Gallery of the Earth
Museums: repositories of historically important cultural material. Natural History Museums: catalogues of animals and bones, plants and seeds. Think of both of them as books, that you walk through. They were born in the […]
The Pink Pink Grass of Home
It was such a pleasure spending some quality time in Tamara’s My Botanical Garden on Monday. Thanks, everyone, for welcoming me with such enthusiasm. It’s fine to share stories of the gardens of […]
Okanagan Okanogan 