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...ever since the Hudson River School-the idea of epic landscape, which gives rise to the parallel idea that the actual making of a picture is some kind of journey. And for Wofford, whose attitude has been much influenced by reading the memoirs of an Oglala chief (Black Elk Speaks), landscape ought not to be separated from the way American Indians perceived nature: as an assembly not of dead earth and dumb plants, but of sentient presences. Some of this comes through in paintings like Star-Weaver, with their panoramic veils and zigzags of light, their flecks of paint that...
...that something else died there in the bloody mud and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream...the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer and the sacred tree is dead." Black Elk of the Oglala Sioux...
Above the Elk and the Moose...
...insensitive to the opinions of those they supposedly represent. Those with some integrity are naive and seem incapable of differentiating between industry-oriented nonsense and sound thinking. As a group, they are unaware of those resources that make our state great, consistently placing Union Pacific coal interests above trout, elk and moose habitats. The people of the state, even those directly benefiting from "industrial progress," do not agree with their priorities...
UNITED STATES. Now threatened with extinction, to join the Eastern elk and passenger pigeon, are the American alligator, Southern bald eagle, Columbian white-tailed deer, Utah prairie dog and ivory-billed woodpecker, the largest woodpecker in the U.S. Even so, the mainland has a good record compared with Hawaii, which has destroyed more native plants and animals in the 192 years since Captain Cook's arrival than has all the rest of America in the same period. Hawaii's endangered wildlife -partly ravaged by the introduction of outside predators like mongooses and rats-includes all the fresh-water...