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Barry Lopez is the author of Arctic Dreams, which won the National Book Award, Resistance, Of Wolves and Men, and other works of fiction and nonfiction. He is coeditor with Debra Gwartney of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape.
The roots of democracy extend further back than is commonly acknowledged, to a time when leadership, spirituality, and ecology were deeply intertwined.
In a world invested in hypermaterialism, the naturalist's imagination is needed more than ever.