The Sigurd F. Olson Website
Quote for February 2012:
The good citizen knows that the land is a sacred trust. He feels that, when he passes it on to future generations, it must be as good as when he found it, or better.
"Conservation and Citizenship," Gopher Historian, April 1953
We live in a finite world. There’s
only so much oil, only so much gas, only so much coal. And there’s
only so much time. In a century likely to be defined by limits,
redirecting our seemingly infinite desires is the major challenge. If
we succeed, it will be because during this century we took seriously
the spiritual journey, and listened again to ancient wisdom—not
out of fear, not out of superstition, but out of understanding,
desire, and joy. Inspired by Sigurd Olson, Thomas Merton, and others,
I created the New Wood blog in 2010. Click
here or on the above
photo to get to it.
Filmmaker Peter Olsen has started a blog
for his forthcoming documentary on Sigurd Olson. Click
here or on the
above photo to get to the main page. Follow the "Watch" link
at the top of the page to see his 4-minute promotional piece that he
is using in fundraising for the project!
Check out this site's first video excerpt from The Wilderness World of Sigurd F. Olson!
Search this website or the internet from the Google search box above. (Searches of this website may also at times yield results from other University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee web pages with related content. Google searches the entire UWM domain, not simply this site.) Use the other search box to quickly find Sigurd Olson books and other items in libraries near you.
Contents
The
Monthly Special | Profile of SFO |
Timeline
This Month in Olson History
Archive| Library |
SFO's Wilderness Theology
Photo Essays |
Photo Albums |
The Voyageurs
Personal Anecdotes |
The Listening Point Foundation |
Links
Each month you'll find something new here—an unpublished speech of Olson's for example, or some correspondence. I'll keep each new piece on this page for two months, then remove it or, in some cases, move it to a different portion of this web site. You'll also find here the current month's edition of "This Month in Olson History."
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Biographical
Profile of Sigurd Olson
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but here you'll get a picture and a thousand words. This short essay covers the key facts and highlights of Olson's life.
Major events of Sigurd's life, listed by year.
The
Land Beyond the Rim: Sigurd Olson's Wilderness Theology
An in-depth analysis of Olson's spiritual journey and his conclusions about the meaning of wilderness. It was published in the April 1995 issue of Forest & Conservation History.
Get the complete text of previously unpublished speeches, letters and other documents here, past editions of "This Month in Olson History," and a complete bibliography of published works by and about Olson.
The
Listening Point Foundation
The Listening Point Foundation was founded in 1998 not only to preserve and protect "Listening Point," the rugged and beautiful northern Minnesota lakeshore property that served as a getaway place for Sigurd F. Olson, but also to promote Sigurd's philosophy and build upon his legacy in the field of wilderness education. This portion of the Sigurd F. Olson Web Site will include articles and speeches about wilderness, about Sigurd Olson, about Listening Point, and news about the Foundation and its efforts.
Diaries, photos and more from the various canoe trips taken by Sigurd Olson and friends, dubbed "The Voyageurs" by Canadian news media.
Select from a menu of photo essays about various aspects of Olson's life.
Do you have a personal memory about Sigurd Olson or about how his writings have affected you? This page contains such personal anecdotes and reflections; read them, and submit your own for possible inclusion.
Links to people, places, groups and topics of importance to Sigurd Olson, plus links to sources of environmental information on the web, and more.
Goals for this site, and a little about its creator.
See also the sites below:
Comments or suggestions are welcome. Please email me: David Backes, Department of Journalism, Advertising and Media Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Last updated: February 1, 2012
This site was established on May 11, 1997
