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Writings
Writings
Paul Lee, Backyard Talk, 2022
Susanne organized my library, which has been disorganized for 10 years. First my granddaughter and her boyfriend, then my granddaughter...
Garrett Stephens
Jun 21, 2022
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Class, Who Killed Cock Robin? at Cowell College
Spring 2014 course at Cowell College on the history of California Organic Movement that began here at UCSC. #OrganicMovement #PaulLee...
Paul Lee
Mar 16, 2014
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Back in the EcoTopia Saddle
Santa Cruz High School drawn by architect, William H. Weeks. Back in the saddle after three months at our retreat–Cisco Point–in Phelps,...
Paul Lee
Sep 30, 2013
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There Is a Garden in the Mind Reviewed by Publishers Weekly
In 1967, author and educator Lee and amateur gardener Chadwick established the University of California, Santa Cruz, Chadwick Garden. Lee...
Paul Lee
Jan 30, 2013
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Homer’s Contribution to the Meaning of Truth
By Kurt Riezler Source: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , Mar., 1943, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Mar., 1943), pp. 326-337 The Greeks called...
Paul Lee
Oct 30, 2012
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Circle Trail
Lighthouse Field State Beach The Homeless Garden Project Natural Bridges State Park Long Marine Lab Antonelli Pond Arroyo Seco Canyon...
Paul Lee
Aug 26, 2012
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Who Killed Cock Robin?
An Earth Day 2000 Address by Paul Lee The Ballad of Rachel Carson and the Historical Origins of the Environmental Crisis and Earth Day An...
Paul Lee
Aug 26, 2012
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Florence the Goose
Florence is a goose. I think of her as my goose although I don’t own her. She belongs to me in my imagination, although she is a real...
Paul Lee
Aug 24, 2012
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The Quality of Mercy: Homelessness In Santa Cruz 1985-1992
by Paul A. Lee Homelessness is not easy to think about. In fact, one would rather do something about it than think about it. It is the...
Paul Lee
Aug 23, 2012
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Ecotopia and Political Expectations
Three Lectures on Paul Tillich by Paul Lee “There is a divinity that shapes our ends rough-hew them how we will.” Shakespeare There are...
Paul Lee
Aug 21, 2012
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Paul Tillich: A Reminiscence and Homage
Paul Tillich: A Reminiscence by Paul Lee Paul Tillich came to lecture at St. Olaf College when I was a senior philosophy student,...
Paul Lee
Aug 26, 2010
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Not a Drop Remains
This is the final chapter of the book Roundabout Zen, a tribute to Richard Baker Roshi, chapter by Paul Lee When my father died and I...
Garrett Stephens
Jun 20, 2006
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In Memoriam, The Passenger Pigeon
Audubon drew a pair of them, drew them from dead birds he shot himself, and showed a pair sharing food. He lived in the heyday of the...
Paul Lee
Nov 26, 2002
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The Deeply Green Reading Guide
by Sandy Irvine A spectre is beginning to haunt the world. It is not some phantom menace. It is the all too real possibility of...
Paul Lee
May 18, 2001
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How Bad Is It?
The following press release was web published on the Sierra Club’s Sprawl listserv in August, 1999. It gives as good an explanation as...
Paul Lee
Aug 13, 1999
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Not the Counter Culture Anymore
by Shelley Gerstein This essay first appeared in Coast Magazine’s Holiday Issue, 1996 reprinted with permission of the author It’s said...
Paul Lee
Aug 9, 1999
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Ecopsychology
Restoring the Earth Healing the Mind Edited by Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes and Allen D. Kanner Reviewed by Don Weiss Millions of...
Paul Lee
Jun 17, 1999
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The Log from the Sea of Cortez
by John Steinbeck Reviewed by Don Weiss Steinbeck is best known as the author of The Grapes of Wrath, which brought him the Nobel Prize...
Paul Lee
Jun 9, 1999
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Ecology, A Pocket Guide
by Ernest Callenbach Reviewed by Don Weiss Wallace Stegner once called ecology “a harder form of literacy” than reading and despaired of...
Paul Lee
Jun 9, 1999
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The Moral Equivalent of War [William James]
by William James This essay, based on a speech delivered at Stanford University in 1906, is the origin of the idea of organized national...
Paul Lee
Feb 3, 1999
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An Arcadian Affirmation
The following is Paul Lee’s chapter from Unusual Associates: A Festschrift For Frank Barron If we could take a long walk, Frank, I would...
Paul Lee
Jan 1, 1996
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The Long Lost Last Dialogues of Socrates
By Plato Responsible for their translation and publication--Paul A. Lee, Director The Platonic Academy Santa Cruz, California September...
Paul Lee
Sep 15, 1981
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