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Monthly Archive for December, 2002

A Fugitive in the Wilderness

First published in The Great Outdoors Magazine, Issue 29, Dec. 2002 ‘The human mind’, writes educator David Orr, ‘is a product of the Pleistocene age, shaped by a wildness that has all but disappeared. If we complete the destruction of nature, we will have succeeded in cutting ourselves off from the source of sanity itself’.

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The Tree of Life

First published in The Great Outdoors Magazine, Sep. 2002. I’ve been wandering and working in wild places for over twenty years now. Growing up in the heart of the Peak District, with the ‘Eliminate’ face of Curbar Edge looming down through my childhood bedroom window, lead to an early obsession with rock climbing that very [...]

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