Dan Flores
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4,468 appearances
23 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Aug
Dan Flores’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Or it means foregoing children and working from home, both of which happen to be far more possible in the 21st century than they've ever been before.
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Don't get me wrong, I hold no animus against cities.
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I love their sports and music venues, bookstore events, car shows, restaurants, and fine dining.
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I always thought Thoreau hit on a near epiphany when he wrote that the happiest humans are those who live with one foot in civilization and one foot in nature.
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The question is, which foot do you rest on?
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The foot in nature is
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has long been my choice.
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It's not a choice for everyone, nor is it even possible for most.
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But without children and unmarried for most of my life, I could do it and I never hesitated.
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Drive rural roads anywhere in the West and there's this ready insight.
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Country life is highly individualistic.
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That's not so much the case if you're in a community governed by a homeowners association, which will keep your neighbors from doing anything crazy, but also limits how crazy you get to be.
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Among normal city people, there's a deep suspicion that some folks are living in the country to avoid the restrictions of ordinary social life and to escape the gaze of others.
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Given the number of posted signs decorated with portrayals of Smith & Wesson revolvers along rural roads, there's probably some truth in that.
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There are also enough trad wife influencers online these days that it's obvious there's a whole subculture in the countryside that's trying to emulate the lives of 19th century homesteaders.
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In historical reality, a pretty brutal existence, especially for women.
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And in a base reversal from HOA settlements, there's also what I've long thought of as the country vomitorium, a place that's erected shrines to the Industrial Revolution by vomiting onto their property broken travel trailers, rusting pickups on blocks, stacks of tin roofing, and every failed refrigerator or well pump their first cousins have no room for.
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A vomitorium does create ecological habitat, all right, but mostly for rodents and snakes and as a toehold for every invasive plant Eurasia has ever offered America.
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For those of us inspired by bioregionalism and by the natural history of the natural West, there's another possibility.
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In 2003, former Ed Abbey acolyte Dave Foreman founded the Rewilding Institute, a non-profit environmental think tank established to fight the American extinction crisis and return predators and other native species to landscapes at every scale, most particularly to large western wildlands.
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