This is a beautiful book! Kotler is a writer who retires from modern life in order to rescue dogs with his wife. The book begins with the sort of sentimental reflections one would expect given the book title, but he quickly goes beyond into an unexpected spiritual journey. Kotler is well read and...
Another difficult book to review. I have tremendous respect for those who dedicate their lives to what they believe. And I love animals(we have always had rescue dogs). That being said, seeing "how the sausage is made" is not always pretty. The author and his wife started a dog rescue with no pla...
Interesting book when the author is talking about their dogs and the rescue facility they opened in New Mexico but he spends most of his time delving into the philosophy of life and the way philosophers over the ages have come to their conclusions as to the relationship between men and animals. T...
A decade later he developed the funny notion that wilderness should actually contain large tracts of undeveloped land. He successfully petitioned for the 1924 establishment of New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness—300,000 hectares of protected landscape that became the first official wilderness area in th...