Author: Keith Badger

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

Metaphors of Movement, by Keith Badger

Nudibranch (Nembrotha lineolata) laying an egg spiral on a sea squirt (Polycarpa aurata) near Metinaro, East Timor. Photograph by Nick Hobgood, 2004. Wikimedia Commons. Photo by Nick Hobgood. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

Walking with an Inkling or two

A Welcome Oasis: The 27th All & Everything International Humanities Conference, by Keith Badger

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, by Keith Badger

"In Quiet Awe" by Victoria Elbroch

What our arboreal friends can teach us

Tracking Thoreau & Leopold, by Keith Badger

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, by Keith Badger

The Cotswolds. Photograph by Colin Watts

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