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Honoring Mentors
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Jim...thank you for supporting my writing endeavors. You teach me how to be a compassionate mentor...
Sharon...Your love and creativity has continually inspired me to exceed my life-horizons... |
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| Baba Ram Dass |
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Through his book, Be Here Now, Ram Dass teaches me the value of cultivating infinite patience, of living in this moment, and of the watercourse way...
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| Gary Snyder |
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Gary compels me to walk wild, drink deeply from the wellspring of adventure, and to keep applying my life to the page...
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| Furthur |
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The Magic Bus
mechanical messenger
vaporific vehicular vortex
zoom zoom zeitgeist
gargantuan grimy grazer--Return to Life!
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| Grizzly Adams |
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While television (and all other forms of modern media-tainment) is generally abominable, the Grizzly Adams character provided the embodiment of and inspiration for the hermitic wilderness immersion that i restlessly yearned for as a child...
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| Euell Gibbons |
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The modern Father of American nature-phagy, Euell stalked the wild anything in search of a natural meal. Here's to good and sensible eating...
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| Stephen Jay Gould |
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Stephen taught me the value of cross-discipline study. I can circuitously link my decision to enter into the world of Stone Age Skills to my reading some of Gould's books one summer.
Create a place others haven't found yet.
Illuminate it with experience.
Expose it with elegant and engaging prose.
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| Barry Lopez |
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One of my favorite authors.
River Notes/Desert Notes:
immersion
beauty of scale
never go back
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| Art Bell |
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The man who dares...
dares to tread into the dark...
dares to defy convention and stand tall upon his convictions...
dares to expand the realm of possibilities... |
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| Mr. Bunny |
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What can I say about my trusty old friend? He keeps me young. He entertains. He even teaches lessons on trail. If only he'd stop pooping in my backpack...
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| Charles McIlvaine |
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An intrepid mycophagist and lover of all things Fungi, Charles may have eaten between 400 and 800 species of mushroom during his lifetime. I follow in his footsteps as a careful toadstool tester and ate my 300th species (Floccularia straminea) in 2005.
He co-authored the book, One Thousand American Fungi, with Robert Macadam.
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| John Denver |
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I really love how he expressed his love for nature in his songs!
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| Steve Irwin |
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Steve's exuberance for anything wild is an inspiration to any naturalist who spends a lot of time in the field trying to understand animal behavior. You will be missed...
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