Let’s open with poetry today, and then stand firmly in science. First, the earth turns towards the sun … (Trumpets tooting … can you hear them?) … and the starlings hold the […]
Words, Humans, Earth: the Relationship Renewed
These Are the People
Sometimes a man just has to say what is in his heart. I have been writing about the creator of environmental consciousness in the settler culture of British Columbia, on the North […]
Roderick Haig Brown and the Power of the Common People
I learned to speak of the earth without words. Good thing. Look at it. Beautiful Fall Lichens. Knox Mountain. Not a word in sight. Still, I might know the world intimately, I might […]
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 […]
Fish in the Rain, for the Joy of It
Roderick Haig-Brown fished for salmon, but his croquet pitch is now graced with fish as colourful as the hand-tied flies he used as words when he talked with fish and learned to […]
Okanagan Okanogan 