Awesome Vistas Open us to Pro-social Behavior - Brooke Williams - C0547

Brooke Williams is an advocate for the preservation of wilderness. He writes about evolution, consciousness, and his own adventures exploring both the inner and outer wilderness. He lives in Utah with his wife and partner, the writer and former New Dimensions guest, Terry Tempest Williams. He is the author of several books including: Half-Lives: Reconciling Work and Wildness (Johnson Books 1999), Escalante: The Best Kind of Nothing (photos by Chris Noble) (University of Arizona Press 2006), Open Midnight: Where Ancestors and Wilderness Meet (Trinity University Press 2017 and Mary Jane Wild: Two Walks & A Rant (Homebound Publications 2021).

Interview Date: 1/14/2022    Tags: Brooke Williams, wandering, hunters and gatherers, human species, dawn of agriculture, segregation, desegregation, either or thinking, Bill Kittredge, silos of belief, Paul Shepard, awe, wild places, Dacher Keltner, pro-social behavior, beauty, vast vistas, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Social Change/Politics