“What I gain most from nature is beyond words.”
—page 32
Author (and fire lookout) Philip Connors confronts Fowles’s idea that “what I gain most from nature is beyond words.”
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Author (and fire lookout) Philip Connors confronts Fowles's idea that "what I gain most from nature is beyond words." |
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I published a book about JF’s relationship with the natural world in 2006. In 2007 I revisited John’s home. This is what I wrote at the time…
http://tmwilson.org/2007/07/16/the-memory-of-john-fowles/