IMAGINING THE EARTH

This week we got a chance to practice using our imaginations with Drew Ward as our guide. Using scripture, poetry, film, short story, essay and text from early transcendentalist writers like Emerson and Thoreau to more modern environmentalist writers like Berry and Leopold, we surveyed some of the standard texts of American culture and Modern thought, exploring some of the obvious complications which arise in their formation of an American environmental imagination. Drew's passion filled the room and it was hard not to like this stuff. On Wednesday we headed out to the Mountain Pine Ridge for class to see what their was to see. Pictured are the girls taking a break from class at Big Rock Falls, one of our favorite swimming holes.