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In his 1993 memoir The Thunder Tree, ecologist Robert Pyle coined the term “extinction of experience,” and since then many researchers have jumped into the fray. There are bodies of work on the demonstrable decline of kids’ contact with nature, as well as the negative impacts of this trend—most alarmingly captured in Richard Louv’s 2005 Last Child

knew they could easily rip a moose or caribou apart, yet I didn’t feel intimidated because they seemed tranquil and not at all antagonistic. Four of them relaxed on the ground, and the other two

Roosevelt showed little patience for the “statesmen of the Atlantic seaboard” who were congenitally “unable to fully appreciate the magnitude of the interests at stake in the west.” In his telling, not George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, but Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett—fighting Indians, hacking their way through the woods—were the true autho

BOOKS AND MOVIES A Mindful Carnivore, Tovar Cerulli Big River, documentary film Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer Fat Head, documentary film Food, Inc., Karl Weber Food, Inc., documentary film Food Rules, Michael Pollan In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan Inflammation Syndrome, Jack Challem King Corn, documentary film Perfect Health Diet, Paul an

I’m loving this chase, every second of it. I don’t give a damn whether that means I’m a bad person. But I know if we actually catch what we’re hunting, it’s probably gonna rip our faces off.

Catfish—“It’s a cliché, but it’s a brilliant, generation-defining documentary.” To Be and to Have—“This is a beautiful and simple film about a one-room school in France, and what happens over the course of one year.” The Overnighters—“This covers oil exploration in North Dakota, which has become perhaps bigger than the Gold Rush in the 1800s, due t

Food writing is just another way of looking at the world,