http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 13. http://www.hcn.org/issues/344/16957 A teacher asks his students and the rest of us to imagine: What would the world be like if we had the courage to use our imaginations? No publisher David Oates social policy imagination David Oates national priorities activism poetry fiction Gerard Manley Hopkins changing the world policy Iraq war reading literature government students Je dreams Human beings and nature tax cuts foreign teachers James Welch Education metaphors 2010-08-06T22:53:11Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/342/16905 The noisy contrast between snowmobiles and cross-country skis awakens the author to the similar contrast between the life she has always wanted and the one she currently has with her partner, Billy. No publisher Deanna Wittmer Clauson Human beings and nature autobiography breaking up love snowmobiles Deanna Wittner Clauson personal history men snow Nordic skis cross-country skiing Colorado mountains male-female relationships winter recreation boyfriends nature women 2010-08-16T22:47:40Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/342/16903 In The Ice Cave: A Woman’s Adventures from the Mojave to the Antarctic, Lucy Jane Bledsoe chases her own wild fears across the landscape in search of a state of grace. No publisher Sarah Gilman Human beings and nature autobiography hiking Lucy Jane Bledsoe women adventurers The Ice Cave Uinta Mountains essays grizzly bears outdoor recreation mountaineering Mojave Desert Antarctic fear women’s lives camping 2010-08-16T22:38:33Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/347/17039 Rick Bass’ new short story collection, The Lives of Rocks, proves that his fierce environmental activism has not diminished the intensity of his storytelling genius No publisher Emma Brown Human beings and nature story collections The Lives of Rocks David James Duncan fiction Yaak Valley Rick Bass environmental activism writers short stories 2010-08-06T19:59:26Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/346/17020 Rebecca Stanfel always planned to take her young son Andrew on wilderness expeditions, but the onslaught of illness has taught her that nature can also be found much closer to home. No publisher Rebecca Stanfel Human beings and nature Rebecca Stanfel hiking nature Bob Marshall Wilderness trails three-year-olds parks autumn parenting sarcoidosis marriage child-raising wilderness children camping 2010-08-06T21:11:56Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/341/16880 After more than a decade of a solitary existence packing mules in the Northern Rockies, the writer is seriously injured and must reconsider his way of life. No publisher Jason Fisher Human beings and nature autobiography back injuries memory recovery mule packing solitude life changes accidents Jason Fisher trauma mules memoir unusual jobs mountain life loneliness physical labor 2010-08-17T23:26:59Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/341/16879 In Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, edited by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney, 45 diverse writers define unusual geographical terms used across the country. No publisher Eliza Murphy Human beings and nature words language Barry Lopez Science Debra Gwartney dictionaries earth Joy Williams Home Ground writers Linda Hogan American history encyclopedias scientists definitions geology landscape geography 2010-08-17T23:21:25Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/330/16560 The author remembers a long-ago hike up Pikes Pike with her mother, who later died having no memory of that hike, or of her daughter. No publisher Diane Sylvain Human beings and nature mountains death Colorado aging Pikes Peak personal history Diane Sylvain family life Alzheimers stroke victims hikes autobiography old age memory memory impairment dementia mother-daughter issues memoir June Sylvain women 2010-10-26T22:46:15Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/330/16559 In Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast, David Petersen assembles some of the correspondence of Western writer Edward Abbey into an eminently readable but ultimately unenlightening collection. No publisher Brian Kevin Human beings and nature correspondence life letters letters to the editor journal entries anthologies book reviews writers Postcards from Ed biography authors Confessions of a Barbarian Ed Abbey memoir David Peterson Western 2010-10-26T22:38:58Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/340/16849 A Westerner makes the disconcerting discovery that as we age, the high, dry West we love isn't so good for our moisture-loving bodies, and the only cure is a trip to the beach. No publisher Ted Kerasote Grand Tetons Caribbean hiking Wyoming dry climates 50-year-olds skiing Margot Hunt dryness physical aging deserts writers health moisture oceans Bora Bora water therapy outdoor life beaches Human beings and nature aridity snowbirds Ted Kerasote swimming 2010-08-26T21:21:23Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/340/16848 Brian Doyle’s new book, The Grail, lives up to its lively subtitle as it describes “a year ambling and shambling through an Oregon vineyard in pursuit of the best pinot noir in the whole wild world.” No publisher Heidi Andrew Human beings and nature Register Guard pinot noir farmers Crops climate change Brian Doyle Jesse Lange vineyards Don Lange Oregon grapes global warming The Grail Agriculture Portland Magazine winemaking Eugene 2010-08-26T21:17:26Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/339/16826 Snowshoeing alone at night in the forest, a woman thinks – and prays – about the friends she loves, and the families they worry about. No publisher Kathleen Dean Moore Human beings and nature night illness winter camping family problems Alain forests snow conversation snowshoes Kathleen Dean Moore silence prayer solitude friendship Douglas fir philosophy women 2010-08-26T22:46:23Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/339/16824 In Big Wonderful: Notes from Wyoming, Kevin Holdsworth describes his love for a harsh landscape in essays, poetry and fiction. No publisher Julianne Couch Human beings and nature Mormon Church childhood oil and environmental problems energy boom Kevin Holdsworth autobi Mormon nature Utah poetry fiction family life Martin’s Cove gas drilling nonfiction Wyoming writers essays memoir Big Wonderful: Notes from Wyoming 2010-08-26T22:05:27Z News Article