Author: Keith Badger

Keith Badger is a tracker, naturalist, educator, and writer.

A Welcome Oasis: The 27th All & Everything International Humanities Conference

I would first and foremost like to follow an age-old injunction that every writer, before giving out any advice or critique to anyone else, should obligingly give an honest account of their journey. So before doing an appraisal of the 27th All & Everything International Humanities Conference I offer a short yet pertinent brief. Having…

Meeting Remarkable Trees

"In Quiet Awe" by Victoria Elbroch

What our arboreal friends can teach us

Tracking Thoreau & Leopold

Aldo Leopold with quiver and bow seated on rimrock above the Rio Gavilan in northern Mexico while on a bow hunting trip in 1938. Forest Service, USDA. Wikimedia Commons. Author: Pacific Southwest Region 5. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

A trail toward a Golden Rule, a Land Ethic, and real magic

In Search of Bombadil

The Cotswolds. Photograph by Colin Watts

Tracking J.R.R. Tolkien’s Keeper of the Forest