Serendipities Of A Nomad's Life

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. first published in 1996. Years ago a newspaper reporter asked my mother, “Are you not afraid when you’re son goes off into the Amazon wilderness alone in his canoe that something might happen to him and that you’ll never see him again?” My mother gave what I have always [...]

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Staying with friends at their cottage by the lake north of Toronto last weekend, we were all amused at dinner by a story published in National Geographic in October 1978 about Koko, a gorilla who is said to understand 2000 words of spoken English.

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Here’s a headline and news story that caught my attention – it was published in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, which is not usaually a source of alarmist environmental doom.   The story speaks for itself.  The notion that so much life on earth might be wiped so that humans can do whatever we want surely puts [...]

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Renewal in the Wilderness, A Spiritual Guide to Connecting with God in the Natural World by John Lionberger.  Published in 2007 by Skylight Paths Publishing, Vermont. Why is it so many of us find our spirits lifted in Nature and so often feel exhausted and unsatisfied in big urban sprawls?  John Lionberger explores this question [...]

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Canadian author and naturalist Farley Mowat has come in for heavy criticism in recent years for falsifying and hugely embellishing parts of his books. For example, when Mowat said he had spent two summers and a winter studying wolves, the Toronto Star, a newspaper in Toronto, Canada, wrote that Mowat had only spent 90 hours [...]

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