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"A couple of years ago I was participating as a writing coach in a "sea-mester," sailing 1,000 miles from Hawaii to , …"

"From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily …"

"... I haven’t wanted to write the same book over and over again, so I’ve gone back to what was really my earliest int…"

"We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it not as just so much air, water, and real estate, bu…"

"In the long run, extinctions of species are as inevitable as the deaths of individual animals, and it may be that the…"

"From the time the European invaders of North America established themselves and began keeping records, the bitter win…"

"My music springs from the soil of the American midwest. It is music of the plains rather than of the city and reflect…"