"…after walking for days, coming home bugbitten, shins bruised, nose peeling, feet and hands swollen, I feel ablaze with life. I suspect that the canyons give me an intensified sense of living partly because I not only face the basics of living and survival, but carry them on my back. And in my head. And… Read more »
This week we briefly explored the relationship between the environment and social justice. We saw that, in many cases, a neglected concern for the natural environment affected certain populations more than others. I’d like to hear your thoughts as to why some areas and groups in Colorado suffer environmental ills (poor water quality, poor air… Read more »
"Too much caution is bad for you. By avoiding things you fear, you may let yourself in for unhappy consequences. It is usually wiser to stand up to a scary-seeming experience and walk right into it, risking the bruises and hard knocks. You are likely to find it is not as tough as you had… Read more »
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." -John Muir
"That there is a game trail! And look, there’s some fur!"Students test their wide-angle vision while on our Aug. 30th Nature Awareness Hike.
"We travel together, passengers of a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation by the care, and work and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half… Read more »
We talked a fair amount about where the products in our lives come from; that is, where our water, clothes, food and ipods originated. By exploring the origins of these objects that surround us everyday, we began to see that our Boulder community is connected to places as far away as Bangladesh and Uzbekistan. Given… Read more »
"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future and the future is ours."-Cesar Chavez
"Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into. … Read more »
"Here is the chance, for men and women of devotion, to lift up the banner of humanity and walk toward a civilization that is free, intelligent, healthy and unafraid." -W.E.B. DuBois
