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Jonathan White is the founder and director of Resource Institute, a nonprofit educational organization in Seattle, Washington that offers floating seminars aboard a wooden schooner in the waters off the Northwest Coast. His work has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Earthworks, Greenpeace Examiner, and Whole Earth Review. He is currently working on a collection of interviews exploring our relationship with nature, Talking On The Water, to be published by Sierra Club Books. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
There seemed no way that animal wasn’t going to charge. I stood there for a moment, terrified, my temples burning. But then, inexplicably, I calmed right down. I had a feeling of complete peace with that animal, and I knew she wasn’t going to charge or hurt me in any way. I was treed by a rhino once, so I knew how very different this encounter was.
January 1995A Koyukon hunter once told me with great pride, “I’ve trapped this country for fifty years, and it’s as rich today as it was when I first started hunting here.” If you overuse or disrespect the environment, you’ll get a message back. Isn’t that exactly what’s happening to us now, on a much larger scale? The message comes to us in the form of cancers that invade our bodies, in the changing climate, in the erosion of soil, in the diminishing capacity of the earth to sustain us. The message is that we can’t go on living like this.
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