{"id":8674,"date":"2013-05-19T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=8674"},"modified":"2013-05-19T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T20:00:44","slug":"aprilmay-2013-losing-solitude-who-are-we-by-martin-murie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/19\/aprilmay-2013-losing-solitude-who-are-we-by-martin-murie\/","title":{"rendered":"(April\/May 2013) Losing Solitude: Who Are We? \u2026by Martin Murie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Aldo Leopold saw fierce green fire in the eyes of the dying wolf his life was changing; years of living in wolf country were driving those moments, years of paying attention, taking the measure of mountains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes \u2014 something known only to her (the wolf) and to the mountain.\u201d (1) Leopold goes on to \u201csuspect\u201d that a mountain fears its deer, just as deer fear wolves. This metaphor, wonderfully outrageous, using fear as the organiser, is then spelled out:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cowman who cleans his range of wolves does not realize that he is taking over the wolf\u2019s job of trimming the herd to fit the range. He has not learned to think like a mountain.\u201d Thoughts like these culminate in his famous rule:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the image below to read the rest of Martin&#8217;s article:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/losing-solitude-who-are-we-by-martin-murie\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8675\" alt=\"Aldo-relaxing_color\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Aldo-relaxing_color.jpg\" width=\"363\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/losing-solitude-who-are-we-by-martin-murie\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/losing-solitude-who-are-we-by-martin-murie\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: When Aldo Leopold saw fierce green fire in the eyes of the dying wolf his life was changing; years of living in wolf country were driving those moments, years of paying attention, taking the measure of mountains. \u201cI realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8925,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8674\/revisions\/8925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}