Hikers on a misty day move through Yellowstone's Hoodoo Basin. As nature writer and former wilderness specialist with the US Forest Service Susan Marsh notes, science, empiricism and reason can fall short of explaining what's really in front of us. For example, centuries have had to pass since The Enlightenment before scientists acknowledged that non-humans have their own state of being. They can sense things we can't and yet we deny these things often because it makes destruction of nature easier. Photo by Jacob W. Frank/NPS
Hikers on a misty day move through Yellowstone's Hoodoo Basin. As nature writer and former wilderness specialist with the US Forest Service Susan Marsh notes, science, empiricism and reason can fall short of explaining what's really in front of us. For example, centuries have had to pass since The Enlightenment before scientists acknowledged that non-humans have their own state of being. They can sense things we can't and yet we deny these things often because it makes destruction of nature easier. Photo by Jacob W. Frank/NPS