Joe Polis believed in learning how to negotiate the ways of the dominant culture without losing one’s own.
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Susan Hand Shetterly is the author of nine books, including Settled in the Wild, which won the Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction in 2011. Her most recent title is Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge.
"I remember the first time I visited the 2,200-acre woodlot for sale in my town. It was in 2014, and Pam Johnson and I drove in to take a look."
If we give what’s wild half a chance, it will, as these fish teach us, do the hard part.
"Like the turkey vultures, I had come to Maine to make myself a good life."
Perhaps animals gave us our first lesson in aesthetics, and that’s why we scrawled their images onto cave walls.
Audubon taught me about the splendors of this continent’s wildness and about the human savagery often pitted against it.
We know the dangers amphibians face: the diseases that sicken them, the destruction of habitat, the roads.
Wild ducks — wild animals of all sorts — fire the human imagination.
The mysterious fish faces a troubling future from overfishing to environmental factors. BY: SUSAN HAND SHETTERLY Photograph by Heather Perry...