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Comment on Red States, Blue States and Nature: How do you Define a Wilderness? by Andy Updegrove

Andy Updegrove — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 20:11:59 +0000

Thanks for the thoughtful comments, Steve.

Comment on Red States, Blue States and Nature: How do you Define a Wilderness? by Steve Updegrove

Steve Updegrove — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 22:38:24 +0000

Lacking the ‘Land Ethic’ called for by Aldo Leopold which would have established a basis for granting rights to the physical environment itself, all our definitions for ‘wilderness’ or ‘refuge’ or ‘range’ or ‘park’ derive first and foremost from the particular interests that humanity seeks to advance in that place and time. While a few years ago ‘personhood’ was sought for the Colorado River, it is telling that the point of reference is a person. If successful, it would theortically guarentee the river the same rights we have, but it leaves unaddressed whether a river should be entitled to rights other than those humans think to claim, for what, indeed, are a river’s equivalents to ‘liberty’ and ‘happiness’?

Perhaps what is lacking is a sufficient appreciation of the deep interconnectedness of all of Nature. As John Muir said, “When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” In Western religions, mankind and all of creation are seen as separate from a supreme being whereas in Eastern faiths everything is viewed as a part of that divinity. The core precept, “Thou art That”, speaks directly to this Oneness. Transpose ‘Nature’ for ‘God’ and that ‘inalienable [natural] rights’ are endowed by Nature rather than a Creator, and Leopold’s ‘Land Ethic’ can be imagined as an all-encompassing one.

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Comment on The Argosy Adventure: Final Chapters! by Andy Updegrove

Andy Updegrove — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 18:42:46 +0000

Dave,

My apologies for the slow approval and response; WordPress is set to send me an email when a new comment is added, and usually does, but sometimes it gets moody.

I’m glad you enjoyed the binge-read and hopefully you’ll enjoy the final, revised and improved version even more. Hopefully I’ll have that ready early in the new year, but as you will have seen from my blog, I’ve gotten a bit diverted revising and posting an old series of posts. I hope you might be enjoying them as well, notwithstanding the switch in genre,

Best regards,

Andy

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Comment on At the Dimming of the Day by Andy Updegrove

Andy Updegrove — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 22:59:42 +0000

Great to hear from you as always, Minrich. I had hoped to see if we could get together while we I was in London, but Covid cut our visit short before I thought to get in touch. Hopefully we’ll have another chance in the After Times.

Amazing (and embarrassing) how difficult it is to self-proofread. The Canal has now been dispatched once more to Venice where it will have far less evaporative pressure to contend with.

And yes, I have heard that heel clicking worked very well for Dorothy. But as I am not L.Frank Baum, I wasn’t sure I could make it work for me.

Stay well.

Andy

Comment on At the Dimming of the Day by minrich

minrich — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 22:52:05 +0000

Hi Andy.
Glad you are avoiding the pandemic, masks and any sort of lockdown. Just wanted to advise that you, at least, have on reader/commenter! I still haven’t gotten around to reading book six – one day I will.

Typo: in post 1 of wilderness series, paragraph 6: I have heard of the Grand Canal in Venice, and I believe that there is one in China, but Canyon springs to mind in the US.

Apropos traveling by ‘snapping one’s fingers’, I thought that ‘clicking the heels of one’s ruby slippers’ was an approved method – or does that only work with respect to Kansas rather than Nevada.

Hopefully you haven’t (and won’t) encountered any missile bearing drones a la Frank.

Enjoy your solace.