THE WAY HOME

 PRAISE FOR STEPHEN GORMAN

“Steve Gorman is a sage, a seer, a shaman, but with a camera. His powerful challenge to us is civilizational. His hard-earned photographs and accompanying commentary make us want to learn more, to understand more, and, remarkably, to change.”

— James Gustave (Gus) Speth, Chair of the President’s Council on Environmental Quality, Executive Office of the President; Founder of the World Resources Institute; Co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council; Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme; Dean of the Yale School of the Environment; author of America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy and The Bridge at the Edge of the World.

“It's plain to see that Stephen Gorman is a great photographer. But he is also one of those rare individuals who recognizes that the crises we face are systemic, with roots in a techno-economic machine that will – if we let it – destroy the living world. Having spent so much time among people still rooted to the land, he clearly sees what we need to learn from them: that the best path forward is towards localized, place-based cultures in which people are intimately connected to community and Nature.”

— Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder and Director of Local Futures; author of Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh; recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goi Peace Prize.

“Please tell Steve how proud I am of the work he has pulled together — it really makes the challenge of climate change so visible and visceral. My hope is that the old adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” proves to be true.”

— Gina McCarthy, White House National Climate Advisor to President Biden, and Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Under President Obama

"Stephen Gorman's masterful images offer tantalizing clues into the nature of our national character and our capricious relationship with the natural world. His work deftly inscribes our beliefs, our dreams, and our American story in an accessible and eye-opening way."

— Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code

“As sobering as the images are, there is also a poignancy that quietly screams ‘Not yet’. We may be down to the bone, but are we out? There is no walking away from such an urgent question when it is so beautifully and eloquently asked.”

— David Macaulay, McArthur Fellow and author/Illustrator of The Way Things Work

"These remarkable images need to be seen, and widely. We risk trading the splendor of our world for bones and ash. And nothing I've seen has ever made that clearer."

— Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature

"Stephen Gorman's American Wilderness is not an imaginary place representing a flight from history, but, on the contrary, a collection of vividly particular locales in which history itself adds to the meaning, the genius loci, and the charm."

— David Quammen, author of The Heartbeat of the Wild: Dispatches From Landscapes of Wonder, Peril, and Hope

"Stephen Gorman's photographs come as close as is possible, other than actually being in the woods, to giving us glimpses, tastes, odors, sounds, and touches of the spirit and being of these places."

— Rick Bass, author of Where the Sea Used to Be

"Stephen Gorman is an explorer who delves into the natural and social histories of the lands he visits, uncovering the soul of wilderness that drew our first pioneers and reinforcing the ethic of conservation that has kept America wild."

— Audubon Magazine

"Stephen Gorman's work is not only about the value and splendor of our landscape; it is also a journey of discovery of broader human ties to the land and its relation to our physical and mental well-being."

— Stephen R. Kellert, Professor of Social Ecology, Yale University, and co-editor (with E.O. Wilson) of The Biophilia Hypothesis