This piece is by way of tribute to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. I was privileged to meet him in the mid-1990s when I was National Campaign Director of the Australian Wilderness Society and we convened a conference on Tibetan Wilderness (an idea conceived by activist Chris Doran) held in Sydney, Australia. It was a honor to speak on the same platform as this extraordinary human being who exemplifies compassion and consistency of purpose. This extended article looks back on his life, philosophies and his ongoing contribution to advancing peace, compassion and kindness as a mantra for everyday living.
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Abstract
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Introduction: The Enduring Altar of the Automobile
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Introduction
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Introduction
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Haiku for the Bison of the Great Plains
Thunder in the grass—
Earth remembers how to breathe,
Hooves drum dawn awake.
Wind through sacred mane,
Ghost herds stir beneath the moon—
Prairie heart still beats.
Brown mountain of life,
You carry the soul of land—
Sky bows to your step.
Thunder of the Land
I am the slow...
I am the whisper before the storm, the golden thread woven through acacia shadow, the living arrow that the savanna draws and releases in a single, sacred breath. They call me cheetah—*Acinonyx jubatus*—but I am older than names, more ancient than the human tongue that tries to...
I do not remember a beginning, for my memory is not stored in the soft pulp of a single brain but is etched in the frost of the mountainside, in the marrow of my ancestors, and in the silver disc of the moon that calls me to wakefulness.
I am born dying, and this is not tragedy—it is scripture.
In the cathedral of leaves where light spills through in honeyed pillars, I unfurl wings still wet with the waters of becoming. Each scale upon these membranes, too small for your eyes to count, is a prayer...
Introduction to a New Legal Paradigm
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Executive Summary
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On a quiet morning in the not-so-distant future, a human being wakes to the soft hum of a neural implant seamlessly delivering the day’s information directly to her brain. Her augmented eyes adjust focus automatically, syncing with an AI assistant that anticipates her thoughts. A bio-printed heart...
I. The View from January: The Permian Competition Begins
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Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, the poet Naomi Shihab Nye writes, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. Her words suggest that kindness is not a shallow pleasantry or a fleeting emotion, but a profound, elemental force that emerges from the...
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