If you don’t talk to the animals, they won’t talk back to you, then you won’t understand, and when you don’t understand you will fear, and when you fear you will destroy the animals, and if you destroy the animals, you will destroy yourself.
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Hail, Coyote Nation by Jane St. Clair
May 2nd, 2016 · No Comments
Tags: Articles Against Assisted Suicide · coyote · Jane St. Clair · nature essay
Dappled Things in Their Pied Beauty
March 31st, 2016 · No Comments
Then as I thought about Hopkins’ words and kept looking around me, I understood what he meant. Gerald Manley Hopkins meant that speckled things or dappled things and striped things or brinded things are all around you, and they are beautiful in their own way.
Tags: Arizona photography · Jane St. Clair · nature essay
Sometimes I dream I am in Sedona Again …
February 2nd, 2016 · No Comments
I have been to Sedona many times .. And once I even went there in a dark gray rainstorm. At first I felt disappointed until I went out walking and I could see that…. even without its colors, Sedona is just as magical and just as enchanted, but in a different way.
Tags: Arizona · Arizona photography · Jane St. Clair · Sedona
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragons, Pusch Ridge AZ
December 31st, 2015 · No Comments
My own mountain is called Pusch Ridge but that is such a prosaic name for a huge everest that looks like a gigantic dinosaur. He is so much more than that, he of the hidden dragons.
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Silence and Awe: A Walk With Sequoia
December 2nd, 2015 · No Comments
The main thing you notice about sequoia is that they are tall. You look up and they are tall as far as your eyes can see. They also have gigantic widths. People use to drive their cars through certain open tree trunks in the Sequoia National Forest before the park rangers became more ecologically-minded.
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Walking Through Yosemite National Park with Mr. Muir
November 2nd, 2015 · No Comments
valley flows the crystal River of Mercy peacefully quiet, reflecting lilies and trees and the onlooking rocks,things frail and fleeting and types of endurance meeting here and blending in countless forms as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures, to draw her lovers in close and confiding communion with her.
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A Godful Cosmic Wildness: The Grand Canyon
September 3rd, 2015 · No Comments
The Grand Canyon seems like a gigantic statement for even Nature to make all in one mighty stone work. Wildness so Godful, cosmic, primeval, bestows a new sense of earth’s beauty and size…
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Cruising Death Valley At 123 Degrees in Summer
August 6th, 2015 · No Comments
by Jane St. Clair Death Valley has this bad-ass reputation. The Hottest. The Driest. The Lowest spot in North America. It’s got Hells Gate and Furnace Creek. As you drive toward Death Valley, signs warn you — “Extreme Heat” … “No gasoline for miles” … “You don’t want to go there” … “Are you crazy? […]
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Tucson’s Tale of Oleander and Boy Scouts
July 2nd, 2015 · No Comments
This week I tried to find the oleander and Boy Scouts story in old newspapers. I couldn’t find it. That bothered me because I had by now heard this story many times over the years. The storyteller always told it with great drama and a catch in their voice.
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Happy Trails to You! At Old Tucson Studios
May 9th, 2015 · No Comments
As you walk around Old Tucson, you get deja vue because you have indeed seen this landscape and these buildings all before – in productions like Tombstone, Hombre, Bonanza, Gunfight at OK Corral, and many more.
Tags: Arizona · Arizona photography · Jane St. Clair · Old Tucson · Tucson · Tucson Tourism · Uncategorized