by Brian O'Riley | Sep 14, 2023 | Fireside Talks, National Park
We have been talking a lot about bears lately. Most recently in “Where’s the Park, Papa?” Patrick McManus tells us: The park bears aren’t what they used to be either. Most of the bears you see along the roads look as if they’ve spent the past five...
by Brian O'Riley | Sep 14, 2023 | Fireside Talks
Last week we considered various ways of “experiencing” an indigenous culture in the wilderness: 1) through a report by John Muir on a journey in Alaska, 2) through my touristy visit to the Hazda in Tanzania, and 3) in Joel Bushcraft’s much more...
by Brian O'Riley | Sep 14, 2023 | Fireside Talks
OK, listen up! “I care to live only to entice people to ____________________________.” Complete this statement. If you say “look at Nature’s loveliness,” you are quoting John Muir correctly. But if you say, “show the superiority of the...
by Brian O'Riley | Sep 14, 2023 | Fireside Talks
We are about half way through the quarter right now — a good time to review some of the major themes in the class so far. Thus “compass bearings.” I think it is useful to consider the course in relationship to where we are today — where we are...
by Brian O'Riley | Sep 14, 2023 | Fireside Talks
During the past couple of months in History 453 we have often discussed the spiritual value of wilderness; and during the past couple of weeks we have studied a closely-related concept, the therapeutic value of wilderness — think Nash and “Wild.”....
