“It is through intuition that we sense our intrinsic and spiritual relationship to the flow of Nature. It is through science that we attempt to understand the relationship of the microcosm to the macrocosm.”
By Jack Loeffler
“He, of all the environmental thinkers I’ve read, put together perhaps the most cohesive view of the natural world, and he did it in a way that is more accessible and more persuasive than anyone else has done. So I see him as the essential man, the touchstone to whom we all go back,...
John Wesley Powell - geological survey map
By Jack Loeffler
Several years ago, my friend author William deBuys was writing his fine book, Seeing Things Whole: The Essential John Wesley Powell. He had selected several illustrations for the book including a map of the drainage areas of the arid West rendered...
New Mexico-fairest of them all. High country, thin air, clear light, drier than a skeleton’s sense of humor, sparsely vegetated, sparsely populated, land of multi-ethnic mestizaje, outlaw country, haven for ex-patriots, artists, writers, bohemians, beatniks and hippies; proving ground for scientists...
Lore of the Land would like to express our gratitude to the Christensen Fund, the New Mexico Humanities Council, The Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bureau of Land Management, the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, and the New Mexico History Museum at the Palace of the Governors for funding our projects past and present.
