TEDxAsheville 2010 is coming right up. Here’s another presenter you’ll see if you attend: Eustace Conway, who I’m most excited about seeing:
Eustace Conway is a unique naturalist. He celebrates the freedom of individuality in all aspects of life. He is a spokesperson for the Earth, giving voice to the natural environment he loves. The renowned wildlife artist, Sallie Middleton, told him on his thirtieth birthday, “You are the most interesting man I have ever met.” Perhaps this is because Eustace has lived the life he has imagined…followed his dreams. Like thoreau, Eustace has gone to the woods to live deliberately, fronting only the essential facts of life, to see if he could not learn what it had to teach, and not when he came to die discover that he had not lived. He has lived in the woods for over 20 years. He learns by visiting extremes; once when Eustace severely cut his thumb, he sewed it back together with twelve stitches, and used plant medicine.
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"once when Eustace severely cut his thumb, he sewed it back together with twelve stitches, and used plant medicine."
Wow… 12 stitches? on his thumb? That's hardcore.
You might also mention that Eustace and his brother once rode their horses all the way across the U.S., and that he was the subject of Elizabeth Gilbert's book The Last American Man. We're lucky to be luring him out of the woods to come visit us at TEDxAsheville. I wonder if he will be riding his horse in from his home in Turtle Island Preserve.