This book begins with as defiant a foreword as I can remember, with allusion to Frost: “Whose woods these are I do not know. I have never seen the man or heard his name. But whoever he may be, he is my mortal enemy” (11). Arbib acknowledges that he is...
Rambles
Some reading notes and more
Richard Nelson's The Island Within
Saturday August 23, 2025
My goal in beginning Rural Hours was to also build a hub for conversation about the environmental writing tradition, so at last I’m going to try to honor that intention by starting in on these imagined “rambles.” I think they’ll pretty much resemble a reading log (call it a blog...