Explore Wildness – Give Back
This part of the website is devoted to friends and friends of friends, especially youth, sharing stories and portraits of wild nature. Those places may be a deep wilderness like Alaska or a metropolis like New York City. Between these extremes are the cultivated natures of agriculture and gardens. In all places, wildness persists. Wildness is an inexorable force as opposed to wilderness, a place. Bob believes it is the genome of the universe, a force that propels the evolution and diversity of life form and geologic process everywhere. It is in the genius of nature and humankind.
In deep wilderness, the portrait and story of wild nature is dominant and in your face compared to its calming experience in the cultivated countryside and garden. In the city, it is in the parks, finds new niches and seeds every place abandoned by humankind.
Bob and Sarah’s motivation to encourage the story and portraiture of wild Nature here is to grow inspiration and new voices for Her stewardship. New leaders who create the policy, legislation and law for a human development on planet Earth that’s in concert with Nature. That loves Nature. They believe a life-sustaining human economy depends upon harmony with the natural world. While continuing to explore nature’s wildness is the bread and wine of Sarah and Bob’s lives, giving back to encourage its stewardship in all places is equally important.
In 2000, Sarah founded Winter Wildlands Alliance, a nonprofit, which advocates for protection of non-motorized winter recreation experiences nationwide and has successfully lobbied for national policy separating motorized and non-motorized recreation on public lands. Bob sold Sun Valley Trekking and founded the nonprofit Wild Gift, which supports a new generation of leaders, 21-35, working together to build inclusive, peaceful and economically sustainable communities worldwide whose development is in balance with the gifts of the natural world. The Wild Gift program starts with a 20-day wilderness immersion to sharpen the better world vision of the new leaders it supports.
You can join Bob and Sarah on their ‘Home Country Walk About’ and help support Wild Gift’s new leaders. Sign-up for their blog posts from the wild on this website and pledge dollars for their ‘Wild Miles for Wild Gift’ campaign on the Wild Gift website.
In deep wilderness, the portrait and story of wild nature is dominant and in your face compared to its calming experience in the cultivated countryside and garden. In the city, it is in the parks, finds new niches and seeds every place abandoned by humankind.
Bob and Sarah’s motivation to encourage the story and portraiture of wild Nature here is to grow inspiration and new voices for Her stewardship. New leaders who create the policy, legislation and law for a human development on planet Earth that’s in concert with Nature. That loves Nature. They believe a life-sustaining human economy depends upon harmony with the natural world. While continuing to explore nature’s wildness is the bread and wine of Sarah and Bob’s lives, giving back to encourage its stewardship in all places is equally important.
In 2000, Sarah founded Winter Wildlands Alliance, a nonprofit, which advocates for protection of non-motorized winter recreation experiences nationwide and has successfully lobbied for national policy separating motorized and non-motorized recreation on public lands. Bob sold Sun Valley Trekking and founded the nonprofit Wild Gift, which supports a new generation of leaders, 21-35, working together to build inclusive, peaceful and economically sustainable communities worldwide whose development is in balance with the gifts of the natural world. The Wild Gift program starts with a 20-day wilderness immersion to sharpen the better world vision of the new leaders it supports.
You can join Bob and Sarah on their ‘Home Country Walk About’ and help support Wild Gift’s new leaders. Sign-up for their blog posts from the wild on this website and pledge dollars for their ‘Wild Miles for Wild Gift’ campaign on the Wild Gift website.