Barry Lopez has lived in the foothills of the Oregon Cascade mountains for 40 years. As a younger man he was a landscape photographer. He is unsurpassed as a western naturalist, scientist and philosopher. He is of course a journalist. His grasp of humanity is deep and highly spiritual. He sees the human situation as it is and calls out our need to include the world in a personal way rather than try to beat it or use it or to destroy it – even to manage it – it is not ours to manage. This dialogue is excellent.
http://www.barrylopez.com/index.htm
Bibliography
Fiction
- Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven (1976)
- Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter (1978)
- River Notes: The Dance of Herons (1979)
- Winter Count (1981)
- Crow and Weasel (1990)
- Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren (1994)
- Lessons from the Wolverine (1997)
- Light Action in the Caribbean (2000)
- Resistance (2004), Oregon Book Award winner
Non-fiction
- Of Wolves and Men (1978), National Book Award finalist
- Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape (1986), National Book Award and Oregon Book Award winner
- Crossing Open Ground (1988)
- The Rediscovery of North America (1991)
- About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory (1998)
- Apologia (1998)
- Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape with Debra Gwartney (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2010)
West Pacific Review 
Another inspiring person, thank you! And thanks to the Bill Moyers Journal for the transcript (I have to improve my English!). I love the passage in which Barry Lopez remembers that considering nature an “other” with no moral values has been a human creation :)