Love Nature? Take a Hike to the Ballot Box.
We can win by saving what we love instead of fighting what we hate. So many of us are deeply moved by nature, and find peace and solace there. Yet few people make the connection between the relaxing beauties of nature and the hard work of voting. In the terrified aftermath of November 2016, as we faced the reality that yes, Donald Trump had really been elected President of the United States, a certain poem often cropped up in my Facebook feed. It’s called The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry, and in those unsettling times many people turned to it for support, and still do. When despair...
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