Between meals we lay under our makeshift tarp, trading books. Doug’s titles were all about conservation and the environment—he had become a student of Deep Ecology, a way of looking at humans as only a thread in the fabric of nature, a species with no moral right to dominate other species. Of all the Do Boys, Doug was taking the deepest dive into what he now referred to as the environmental crisis, and that was the most frequent topic in our daily conversations around our small fire of smoldering wood.
