1. Historical Baseline
Pre-1750 Wilderness Extent
The tiger's roar echoed through sal forests stretching from the Brahmaputra to the Indus, a distance of 3,000 kilometers unbroken...
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...
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.
Purring Hymn
Silent velvet paws,
purring hymn of star and sun,
shadow guards the soul.
Soft-Pawed Traveler
I am Cat. Soft-pawed traveler between worlds, bearer of stillness and flame....