This email just came in about my ANWR piece written some five years ago:

Your piece on ANWR “Ugh, Wilderness” is masterfully written, brilliantly derogatory and cleaverly presented with liberal use of the pursuasive tricks of deprecating humor, psuedo science and erudite sophistication. It also presents insight into your almost total lack of understanding or appreciation for the ingredients and substances that compose or describe vast essence, spirit and ecological values of the natural, living world. You are to be commended for such obvious talent. But you also, unwittingly, disclose at least one obvious failing, so typical of even the most fascile conservative mind: environmental blindness, mind-dead insensitivity to the essence of nature and the scope and power of pure wilderness. Were YOU to be graded on the results of your alluded Rorschach test you would, with all your cleaver wit, badly flunk – observing no wonder, no mystery, no calling of the wild. Ya either got it, or you dont!