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by Paul A. Lee Homelessness is not easy to think about. In fact, one would rather do something about it than think about it. It is the...

Three Lectures on Paul Tillich by Paul Lee “There is a divinity that shapes our ends rough-hew them how we will.” Shakespeare There are...

Paul Tillich: A Reminiscence by Paul Lee Paul Tillich came to lecture at St. Olaf College when I was a senior philosophy student,...

This is the final chapter of the book Roundabout Zen, a tribute to Richard Baker Roshi, chapter by Paul Lee When my father died and I...

Audubon drew a pair of them, drew them from dead birds he shot himself, and showed a pair sharing food. He lived in the heyday of the...

by Sandy Irvine A spectre is beginning to haunt the world. It is not some phantom menace. It is the all too real possibility of...

The following press release was web published on the Sierra Club’s Sprawl listserv in August, 1999. It gives as good an explanation as...

by Shelley Gerstein This essay first appeared in Coast Magazine’s Holiday Issue, 1996 reprinted with permission of the author It’s said...

Restoring the Earth Healing the Mind Edited by Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes and Allen D. Kanner Reviewed by Don Weiss Millions of...

by John Steinbeck Reviewed by Don Weiss Steinbeck is best known as the author of The Grapes of Wrath, which brought him the Nobel Prize...

by Ernest Callenbach Reviewed by Don Weiss Wallace Stegner once called ecology “a harder form of literacy” than reading and despaired of...

by William James This essay, based on a speech delivered at Stanford University in 1906, is the origin of the idea of organized national...

by Henry David Thoreau This essay was presented as a lecture by Thoreau in his later years but only published after his death. It’s best...

The following is Paul Lee’s chapter from Unusual Associates: A Festschrift For Frank Barron If we could take a long walk, Frank, I would...

By Plato Responsible for their translation and publication--Paul A. Lee, Director The Platonic Academy Santa Cruz, California September...