For this journal response, I’d like you to reflect on our overnight trip. Now that you have one group expedition under your belt, please rank the following concepts in order of importance to a successful trip: Communication, Attitude, Logistics (gear, weather, lessons, etc.), and Personal Feelings. Give complete reasons describing why you ranked the 4… Read more »
"I’d rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth." -Steve McQueen
"A person who points out what is wrong renders only half a service unless he can point out what is right." -Unknown
"The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between the way nature works and the way man thinks." -Gregory Bateson
"If a Koyukon Indian wrote a book about bears, maybe half the volume would be the rules of keeping yourself in a state of respect toward the animal." -Richard Nelson, Alaskan Anthropologist
This week we looked at social change and how it relates to people on a political and personal level. For example, we used Robby’s desire to have a large all-terrain vehicle that has notoriously poor gas mileage as an instance of his ‘personal’ world. Robby, being a world-wise and savvy guy, also sees global warming… Read more »
"Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" -Aldo… Read more »
"What is the good of having a nice house without having a decent planet to put it on?" -Thoreau
Students inspect the Ponderosa’s fragrant fire protection: bark.
"Each time a man stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls… Read more »
