Inspired by...


Edward Abbey (Abbey's Web) .. Abbey's papers (University of Arizona Library Special Collections) .. "The First Morning" (From Desert Solitaire)

Anna Akhmatova

Francisco X. Alarcón

Bikes (pro-bike links from Ghostcycle.org)

Birds:

  • Audubon Chapter of Minneapolis
  • Audubon's Multimedia Birds of America ("A replica of the complete John James Audubon's Birds of America [1840-1844]")
  • Bird by Bird ("Annual portrait project creating a visual record of wild avian/human encounters throughout Minnesota")
  • Radical Birder Librarian
  • Minnesota Birding Network
  • Minnesota Ornithologists' Union

    Les Blank (Flower Films, rockin' documentaries)

    Buddhist Peace Fellowship

    Bureau of Public Secrets (Ken Knabb's translations--e.g. Situationist International Anthology and Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle -- essays, including "The Joy of Revolution"; Kenneth Rexroth archive; and sundry radical documents)

    Claude Cahun (Surrealist, free spirit, French Resistance activist, lesbian, mucho mas)

    Cathy Camper (Seed art gallery)

    Clouds (The Cloud Appreciation Society)

    John Coltrane (Coltrane site on AllMusic) and Thelonious Monk

    James P. Danky

    Brad Dean (Thoreau scholar); a personal remembrance

    Voltairine de Cleyre quotations (About whom Alexander Berkman wrote: "Her life was a protest against all sham, a challenge to all hypocrisy, and an inspiration for social rebellion...")

    [Voltairine de Cleyre] The Diggers (San Francisco-based guerrilla street theater group of the 60s)

    Dreamtime Village

    Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Environmental artists Urs P. Twellmann, Diana Lynn Thompson, Patrick Dougherty, Strijdom van der Merwe, Ahmad Nadalian, and Zach Pine

    Axel Erlandson's Tree Circus .. More on Erlandson: "My father talked to Trees" (By John Gathright) .. The Tree Circus (by Sharon Yamanaka) .. "The Tree Circus: John Turner follows the fate of Axel Erlandson's twisted trees" (Color photos from Raw Vision #37) .. The Tree Circus (from Designboom)

    Martha Furman

    Diamanda Galas

    Anu Garg (Wordsmith, creator of A Word A Day, among other things)

    Glen Canyon Institute

    Global Ideas Bank ("Socially innovative non-technological ideas and projects")

    Andy Goldsworthy (Scottish environmental artist); "Sensual simplicity" (Article from Resurgence, July/Aug. 2001)

    Al Green (the Rainer Rilke of soul music)

    Alex Grey (artist)

    Werner Herzog

    Nancy Kangas

    Jane Kenyon

    Daniil Kharms (My spiritual grandpappy; short short stories in English)

    Leavenworth Jackson (rubber stamps)

    James Michael Lawrence (artist)

    Menghsin

    Ricardo Levins Morales (artist/activist)

    Adrian Louis (poet)

    Rosalie Maggio

    Micronaut (Microscopy by France Bourély)

    Edna St. Vincent Millay

    Pablo Neruda

    Noise Pollution Clearinghouse

    Northland Poster Collective (labor posters, t-shirts & links)

    Mark Odegard

    Mary Oliver

    John Oswald (Creator of Plunderphonics, et al)

    [Rimbaud] Pantheism (World Pantheist Movement)

    Noel Peattie (Librarian, poet, Friend)

    photographers/seers (Ansel Adams, Sebastião Salgado, et al.)

    Dan Price (Moonlight Chronicles)

    Rascal Jones

    Everett Ruess (explorer, writer, artist, disappeared)

    Richard Reames (arborsculptor)>

    Diego Rivera Museo Virtual (a bilingual multi-media site)

    Rock balancing

    Simple Living Network (Tools for a more conscious, simpler lifestyle)

    Sparrow (Rain Taxi interview); "The Tao of Sparrow"

    David Steinberg ("Comes Naturally"-- sexuality column)

    Summerhill School (free-range education)

    [Yonah Shimmel knish bakery] Tao Te Ching (Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English translation)

    Henry David Thoreau

    Trees and Mysteries (Some arboreal thoughts, quotations, and links

    Mark Twain's "The War Prayer"

    Jessamyn West (librarian-diarist, former Odd Fellow's Hall caretaker, reader's adviser, long-distance driver, niece of Peter Coyote)

    Walt Whitman and Whitman's Leaves of Grass

    Forever malformed and tainted by reading the complete works of Arthur Rimbaud, Louis Ferdinand Celine, Yukio Mishima, and Charles Bukowski...

    This page updated February 12, 2008.

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