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Prayer poems are secular psalms that I keep rereading over the days of my life. Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver, Ursula Le Guin, Maya Angelou, Victoria Chang have, W.S. Merwin, Raymond Chandler, A.R. Ammons... I love Wendell Berry for 50 years now. Kristi and I read vows to each other at our wedding out of Wendell's The Country of Marriage. I dream of you walking at night along the streams of the country of my birth, warm blooms and the nightsongs of birds opening around you

Photo credit Jordan Dowell A good friend went to Glacier National Park and saw the NW Conifers doing a TREEMENDOUS job. I like how the park interp has highlighted conifers in the park in pink How about you? If you live in the PNW, buy a NW Conifers or other art from Good Nature for your local park. It doesn't have to be one of the wildest parks in North America! Wallace Falls State Park has the NW Conifers and Old Growth Forest posters on display out past Monroe WA. Moran

I practice writing by commenting on news stories. I like to practice improv writing like this because the NYT only lets you write 1000 words or something. So a limit is great. And I have to organize my thoughts on a subject I care about, which is actually challenging enough to keep me interested in this writing practice for a few years now. Whether they publish the comments is a bonus, doesn't matter in the end. Here is my two cents (read the article to understand my fr

Love these folks at Biomimicry Institute imagining and then creating new products and services that sync up with Mother Earth. Jeanine Benyus was on and wrapping up conversation with Nate Hagens said (I'm paraphrasing) "Here on Earth we've been given free land, fresh air, clean water and abundant food. How do we return the favor?" Her question reverberates today whenever I am walking in the woods, writing friends and family. How do we return the favor? There is a questio

Coretta Scott King is one of my teachers: anti war, pro peace and justice civil rights leader Dear Senator Murray, I asked you to take a stand and you sent me back a form letter that could have been written by you in the 1990's about a 2 party solution to the horror show unfolding in Palestine at our expense. Not a word about equality for everyone in Palestine and Israel. And for my request you go to Israel and see the damage our tax dollars are doing to poor people over th

Happy 4th! Favorite patriotic poem by Wendell Berry to celebrate. Be r/evolutionary! (Wonderful photography illustrating the real America 250th anniversary here via The Guardian) Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a car

Here is a beautiful story by marvelous naturalist and science writer Lynda Mapes for your reading pleasure. I copied it from The Seattle Times ( I subscribe) so you can read it without the pop up window demands. Here is a link to Common Macrolichens in the PNW. Color chart of PNW lichens for all you artist scientists out there: PNW Old Growth Forest painted by Suzanne Duranceau for Good Nature Publishing ‘See the whole world in lichens,’ the marvels that grow anywhere Ju

Wild to learn about the sex lives in our animal cousins. Who else knew about a fish that can change her ovaries into testes prn ? I didn't

Art helps us connect with Mother Nature. Learn, teach and change the world. You can take the first step toward a greener more just world for free today. Just walk down the street and say hello to every plant and animal you meet. Break through the illusion they are separate "objects" out there and breakthrough to the reality we are in relationship with every being we encounter today. Do you have a favorite tree? Reach out and touch their bark. Enter into a conversation w

June 20, 2026 My rant to the NYT on Nick Kristof's opinion piece below: By Nicholas Kristof NYT Opinion Columnist President Trump declared in March that a deal to end his war with Iran would require “unconditional surrender,” but that wasn’t quite right. The preliminary agreement he just reached with the Iranian regime was more like a conditional surrender — by the United States. In the past few days, various Republicans and war hawks have emerged, seemingly bewildered, to cr

I've printed the beautiful Northwest Woodland Wildflowers poster by award winning artist Jean Emmons. Jean took 9 months to watercolor the art she made of 34 natives you will find on your walk through the woods. How great a gift to. be able to paint like that! And see the plants so clearly? Amazing. NW Woodland Wildflowers painted by Jean Emmons for Good Nature Publishing I have a special offer for parks, forest educators, camps and master gardeners, master naturalists: throu

How many invasions by the US in other countries since Viet Nam? The forever wars are essential profit margin for the war machine that runs this country. Whether President Depends lost this invasion on Iran begs the question why we have lost every war we started since Viet Nam? Maybe winning and losing is beside the point? Maybe the profit margin is all that matters. Raytheon, Boeing, Amazon, Microsoft and Caterpillar stock bumps is what matters. Pop quiz: how many milita

What happens when you decide not to get frozen with grief at the ecological catastrophe unfolding before our eyes? One response is permanent warfare as conflict resolution. The capitalists are all set to kill us all off after they kill the rest of the plants and animals. There are several ways forward. I've been dreaming a stewardship society into being with Good Nature Publishing. Instead of seeing our species as the tip of a pyramid best and brightest, what if we are in

The classic Pojar & MacKinnon field guide has been updated and going to be pubished for August delivery. Chip in to this Kickstarter to help a great cause.

Love Mamdani's ability to communicate and even better get stuff done!