Table of Contents

Wildness
Nearly everything I know about wildness: the meaning of it, the history of it, and the value of it


History of Wildness
Further Thoughts on the Meaning of Wildness
Pastoral Is Not Wild
Possessing or Being Possessed By
Blaming John Muir
Wildness in the Rest of the World
What People Bring Home from Wildness
Huckleberries

The Age of Discovery
How I discovered the Eagletail Mountains and came to realize that the Age of Discovery isn’t over


Travelers and Stay-at-Homes
What each gains and loses, and why we need each other



Salt Creek
A confession that I was once a promoter of industrial development, and a discovery later in life that Wallace Stegner and I have something in common

Houses
A rant about the most ubiquitous threat to wildness that
I know of


Pinnacle Peak
Three mountains in Phoenix/Scottsdale and what they tell us about trespassing and vandalism


Tropical Hardwoods
I don’t know of anything more interesting without seeming to be interesting than the tropical hardwoods of South Florida. It makes their destruction doubly tragic.

Does It Have to Be Difficult?
Ways of appreciating wildness: assault versus attentiveness



Mountain Film Festival
How could I possibly fail to enjoy a film festival about mountains?


Gospel Jamboree
Praise the Lord for Sprague’s pipits.



Keep Fishing
What the Zuni creation story taught us about religion and nature


Missouri
The best of times and the worst of times: a reflection on my lifelong relationship with the state of Missouri.


Living Wild on North 12th Street
Where should someone who loves wild nature live?



Wildness and the Colorado Frontier
Exploitation of natural resources
and the love of wild country meet in Colorado.


Walking
Immersing ourselves in nature like children do. Except that children don’t do it anymore.


The Eden Temptation
Eros, sublimity, and the Petrarch Effect. Surrounded by paradise, we first recognize it and then turn against it.


Wild Photography
Looking for my place in the history of photography.



PHOTOS: header: Evening light, Book Cliffs, CO 11/07 / Kawishiwi River, MN 9/04 / Eagletail Mts, AZ 12/98 / Caney Falls, Bankhead NF, AL 3/07 / Indiana Dunes SP, IN 10/01 / Saguaros, Tucson Mt Unit, Saguaro NP, AZ 10/90 / Summit of Piestewa Pk, Phoenix, AZ 11/98 / Fakahatchee Strand, FL 12/99 / Middle Sister & North Sister from South Sister, OR 8/82 / Moon at sunrise, Gore Range, Silverthorne, CO 7/07 / Gayfeather Prairie, MO 5/06 / Petroglyph, Picacho Mts, AZ 12/01 / River Rd, Missouri R, near Hartsburg, MO 10/06 / Trees in a vacant lot, Grand Junction, CO 1/08 / Zodiac Spires & one of the Willow Lakes, Gore Range, CO 8/08 / Turkey Flat Trail, Pinyon Mesa, CO 10/08 / Rue anemone (Anemonella thalictroides), Pershing SP, MO 3/94 / Sunshine Mt & Wilson Pk at sunrise, San Juan Mts, CO 9/07.