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Which Side Are You On?
Movements ripen, sometimes suddenly. The evils they battle have often existed for decades or even millennia (slavery, say) but the moment comes when the fight needs to happen. As James Russell Continue reading
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Life on the Mississippi
IN MY PART OF TOWN, there was no bookstore. We didn’t even have a library. Fishermen and sporty gents in porkpie hats shuffled around in the blaring silence of jukeboxes straining Continue reading
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Self-Evident Truths
THERE ISN’T A CHANCE in hell that something like the original Wilderness Act could be passed today. Environmentalists today are too much on the defensive. Sure, there have been green platforms Continue reading
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Manifest Destiny
THIS IS HOW I CAME to be standing inside a sodbuster’s hut at the edge of the Badlands, breathing 1876 air and hearing Spanish in my mind . . . Maybe Continue reading
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Sand County, the Sequel
ALDO LEOPOLD was a righteous man — in a midwestern sort of way. When it came to nature, he disapproved of “tinkerings,” as when domestic species are substituted for wild ones, Continue reading