Wild Being from the Heart of Nature
Posted in Articles on May 1st, 2003
First published in The Great Outdoors Magazine, Jan. 2003. Back in the 1980’s there was a trend to blame the ecological issues facing the world on one simple cause – overpopulation. The story went like this… Current environmental problems are the result of human overpopulation, therefore to deal with these problems we must reduce, or [...]
Posted in Articles on Mar 1st, 2003
There’s something beautiful about the simplicity of a wild camp. Fetching water from a stream, lighting the stove, making a bed and preparing food. The well-planned wild journey will include plenty of time for such camp craft – for the art of simple living.
Posted in Articles on Feb 24th, 2003
First published in The Great Outdoors Magazine, May 2003. Since this date the conference mentioned was successfully convened and a report about it can be read here. Arne Naess, whose 90th Birthday was honoured through this conference, died on 12th January 2009 at 96 years of age. The previous eight weeks of my life had [...]
Posted in Articles on Jan 24th, 2003
First published in The Great Outdoors Magazine, Oct. 2002. Last week I found myself 200 miles off the coast of Lands Ends in a small boat. A curious situation to be in and certainly one that was new to me. It’s a big place, the Atlantic Ocean, and I felt infinitesimally small.
Posted in Articles on Dec 24th, 2002
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’.