Many nature writers send dispatches from their wooded homes with the brook babbling outside the ever-open window; they go on weeks- or months-long solitary rambles in remote places. They bring us along, in their writing, on these adventures and in the musings they inspire. And they DO inspire…But in making such experiences the core of out ‘connection to nature,’ we set up a chasm between our daily lives ('non-nature’) and wilder places ('true nature’), even though it is in out everyday lives, in our everyday homes, that we eat, consume energy, run the faucet, compost, flush, learn, and live. It is here, in our lives, that we must come to know our essential connection to the wilder earth, because it is here, in the activity of our daily lives, that we must surely affect this earth, for good or for ill.