Author Archives: Emma Wunderlich

I grew up in a farming community in rural Missouri, where passing three hundred cows on my drive to school was just a typical morning. My family are not farmers; my mother is a lawyer and my father is a financial officer, but we live in a community surrounded by corn, a place in whichContinue reading “Regenerating Our Relationship with the Planet”

During this time—as our lives have been flipped upside down by an international pandemic and a national crisis—the relationship between non-human biology and mankind is at the forefront of everyone’s minds. Many people are living in fear. Some are in disbelief that our lives have been put on indefinite hold by a microscopic virus. AndContinue reading “Non-Human Species in A Man’s World: An Unnatural History”

Leopold expresses his beliefs about ecology and the land ethic through his book, A Sand County Almanac. Leopold hooks all lovers of nature in his first sentence when he writes: “There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot (vii).” Leopold advocated for an Evolutionary-Ecological Land Ethic, which emphasized the maintenance ofContinue reading “A Sand County Almanac: Leopold’s Land Ethic in the 21st Century”