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The urgent need for committed nature writing
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Advertisement There are no shadows. Space has no depth. The bottom of the world disappears. On foot, you stumble about in missed stair-step fashion.
This is nature writing, but not as we expect to find it. Nothing about birds and trees and burgeoning life. It s how Barry Lopez described being engulfed in a blizzard in the Canadian Arctic. The science of light and landscape was real, but his experience was mystical.
The late Barry Lopez said we have to imagine what it means to live lives that matter.