Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout | 
pickI enjoyed discovering the work of a fire lookout, how the job used to be, how it is now. Philip Connors shares his good/bad experience, he describes beautifully the solitude, and the wilderness surrounding him. He shares how dealing with fire has evolved over time in the Gila, and in other national parks. It definitely offers food for thought.
If you're looking for evasion, wilderness, poetic solitude, a bit of history, this book is for you.
Going to read tagged book in good company. My cat, Nox, offers an extra layer of warmth ;)
Hurray for courtyards and good weather 🌤
To live simply without the leeches.
pick"I tell of how I've come to live Wordsworth's 'calm existence that is mine / When I am worthy of myself."
Connors' writing is poetic, it is a delight. "Fire Season" is a love letter to solitude and nature.
Have started reading this book on our trip to San Diego. Made it to Arizona, off to Cali tomorrow :)
Phil Connors on what it does to the mind to spend time alone.
pickI love, love, love this book. As a fellow nature nerd and introvert this book appealed to me in numerous ways. The solitude, the wild places, connecting with nature. Fascinating stuff.
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"Despite all the vitriol we've directed at it, despite all the technology we've deployed to fight it, wildfire still erupts in the union of earth and sky, in the form of a lightning strike to a tree, and there is nothing we can do to preempt it. The best we can do, in a place like the Gila, is have a human stationed in a high place to cry out the news."
"To the east stretches the valley of the Rio Grande, cradled by the desert: austere, forbidding, dotted with creosote shrubs and home to a collection of horned and thorned species evolved to live in a land of scarce water."
Set in New Mexico, this memoir has so many great descriptions of nature.
