"I now suspect that just as a deer herd Lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer." That's a great quote, right there.
cushychicken 10 hours ago [-]
I agree - that’s a standout even with a lot of beautiful prose in that piece.
Litost 4 hours ago [-]
Yes, as you both mention, great prose and great insight.
One of my favourite pieces of nature writing as it succinctly cuts through what seems to be the modern disease of problem creation masquerading as problem solving so elequoently and hard hitting. Obviously because we so often seem to fail at taking the long term and/or ecological and/or interconnected system view.
Farmers in South Dakota were so poor they couldn't afford to trap/stop the wolf, so they enlisted the federal government to do it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer_Wolf
lxe 6 hours ago [-]
This was featured in This American Life 581, which is a nice episode
whilst reading Aldo Leopold famous short piece from A Sand County Almanac, Thinking Like a Mountain:
https://ia600707.us.archive.org/6/items/ThinkingLikeAMountai...
One of my favourite pieces of nature writing as it succinctly cuts through what seems to be the modern disease of problem creation masquerading as problem solving so elequoently and hard hitting. Obviously because we so often seem to fail at taking the long term and/or ecological and/or interconnected system view.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/582/when-the-beasts-come-ma...