History knows Promontory Summit, a small non-town in Utah's middle-top latitudes, as the place where, in 1869, a Golden Spike (actually several) was (were) driven to link the tracks of the Central and Union Pacific Railroads, completing the nation's first transcontintental railway. An NPS museum and visitor center mark the spot; in back, two live …
The Geography of Hope
There is a healing quality to nature..... No matter how hard I try, I find myself taking things for granted. Things that I would not expect. Everyday things. Like vision. I’ve been thankful for incredible views, for the ability to use my body to get to those views. But, I’m not sure that I’ve ever …
Instructions for Life
Every third week I write about my relationship to wilderness on this blog. It’s a complicated love affair. Sometimes, most times, I struggle to express that relationship. I find that nature always tells it best – a late October aspen whispering the last of its secrets, a cacophony of coyotes yipping and howling on a …
A New Natural History
Here in New York City I'm looking harder than I've had to in other places and contexts for wildness, for ideas and conversation about biophilia and inter-being. Often I land at the Mid-Manhattan Library, where a bit of mindful browsing usually drops me into the right books, or vice versa. (I have always believed that books, wild and …
Top of the World: The Gallatin Crest
Strenuousness is the immortal path, sloth is the way of death. H.W. Tilman THIS year. THIS month. THIS week….. YES!! …
Writing the Wild 