Category: Havens
America’s Holy Places
“I have found that people go to the wilderness for many things but, the most important of these is perspective. They may think they go for the fishing or the scenery or companionship but, in reality it is something far deeper. They go to the wilderness for the good of their souls.”
– Sigurd Olson
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The Hunter’s Political Err
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Federal Lands: Still soon enough after the Civil War to hear the ringing of gunfire and smell the smoke, March of 1872 brought light to a novel but momentous debate on this nation’s political landscape. Ulysses S. Grant’s signature of the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act was a complete juxtaposition…
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Wild Splendor
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Oh, the wild splendors that nature’s heart, she renders, How terribly estranged we have become.Jagged peaks pierce the clouds but remain obscured beyond the shrouds,The concrete and steel forged by man.Rolling hills of prairie have become an adversary,A helpless victim of man’s lustful greed.Forgotten and misplaced, the beauty we once…
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Our Nation’s Holy Places
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Nearly 250 years after our great nation’s conception, the political landscape continues to plunge into seemingly irreconcilable division. The media fixates on extreme, polarizing ideologies. News outlets thrust our differences into the foreground while allowing our similarities and shared viewpoints to blur into the background. Ballots are cast in support…