Background
Kaufman, Wallace V. was born on April 10, 1939 in Astoria, New York, United States. Son of Arthur Kaufman and Emma Hassel Pickering Wert. Resident of Lincoln County, OR.
(Only when we can fall in love with the world that does no...)
Only when we can fall in love with the world that does not love us back, the world that will ultimately consume us, only then do we
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/grow-old-and-die-young-wallace-kaufman/1138401205
2021
( Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right und...)
Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you—all thrown up in a frantic defense against the natural system. The romantic desire to live on the seashore is in doomed conflict with an age-old pattern of beach migration. Yet it need not be so. Conservationist Wallace Kaufman teams up with marine geologist Orrin H. Pilkey Jr., in an evaluation of America's beaches from coast to coast, giving sound advice on how to judge a safe beach development from a dangerous one and how to live at the shore sensibly and safely.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0822305747/?tag=2022091-20
(Coming Out Of The Woods: The Solitary Life Of A Maverick ...)
Coming Out Of The Woods: The Solitary Life Of A Maverick Naturalist [Kaufman, Wallace] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Coming Out Of The Woods: The Solitary Life Of A Maverick Naturalist
https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Out-Woods-Solitary-Naturalist/dp/0738204889
(Buy No Turning Back: Dismantling the Fantasies of Environ...)
Buy No Turning Back: Dismantling the Fantasies of Environmental Thinking on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders
https://www.amazon.com/Turning-Back-Dismantling-Fantasies-Environmental/dp/0595000991
1994
(The Hunt for FOXP5: A Genomic Mystery Novel (Science and ...)
The Hunt for FOXP5: A Genomic Mystery Novel (Science and Fiction): 9783319289601: Medicine & Health Science Books @ Amazon.com
https://www.amazon.com/Hunt-FOXP5-Genomic-Mystery-Science/dp/3319289608
2016
Kaufman, Wallace V. was born on April 10, 1939 in Astoria, New York, United States. Son of Arthur Kaufman and Emma Hassel Pickering Wert. Resident of Lincoln County, OR.
AB, Duke University, 1961. M.Litt, Oxford University, England, 1963.
Assistant professor English University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1965-1974. Appraiser Heartwood Realty, Inc., Pittsboro, North Carolina, 1974-1988. Science writing fellow Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Marine Biological Laboratory, 1989.
( Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right und...)
(Only when we can fall in love with the world that does no...)
2021(Beaches are moving)
(Coming Out Of The Woods: The Solitary Life Of A Maverick ...)
(Buy No Turning Back: Dismantling the Fantasies of Environ...)
1994(The Hunt for FOXP5: A Genomic Mystery Novel (Science and ...)
2016Accelerating and radical change is very unsettling to anyone who wants to settle down with a comfortable perspective, a loyal family, a stable set of friends, a nurturing tribe, and a defensible faith. The threat of losing these cherished human comforts means that each group or tribe defends or asserts its identity with increasing ferocity. Discipline and peer pressure within a group become more and more important and dissent becomes more dangerous. The vilification and dehumanizing of outsiders also intensifies.
Time is not a sustainable resource
Quotations:
Kaufman’s law of society and the natural environment: Concern and care for the natural environment grows in proportion to a community’s (nation’s) affluence.
Kaufman’s law of population growth: A nation’s birth rate and population growth will decline as its affluence ascends.
Kaufman’s First Law of Human Powers: No enhancement of human powers can be successfully prohibited.
Kaufman’s Second Law of Human Powers: Every enhancement of human powers will be developed to its maximum economic and political utility.
Kaufman’s Third Law of Human Powers: Every enhancement of human powers will have both negative and positive potential for a large part of humanity; which potential becomes most important depends on political systems and ideology.
Kaufman's law of intellectual ecology: "If everything is connected to everything else, we can't know anything unless we know everything.” No wonder revelation and story telling are popular.
Life is full of experiments we perform on ourselves—choices.
Chairman Chatham County Democrats, 1978. President Conservation Foundation North Carolina, 1986-1988. North American Mycological Assoc, Pres. Finders Foundation.
Quotes from others about the person
"I have been fortunate to know someone whose greatest love is the natural world. He writes with the insight of a Thoreau and the passionate poetry of Omar Kayam. Fortunately for the rest of the world, he has left a written record. Read and savor Grow Old and Die Young by Wallace Kaufman. Years from now, you will remember when you read it." David Deamer, Astrobiologist, Biomolecular Engineer, and author of First Life and Assembling Life.
Bollingen Prize winning writer Fred Chappell says about Grow Old and Die Young: "Here is memoir, meditation, poetry, photo/art gallery, nature notebook, scientific ponderance, and exhortation for the protection of the wild. It is handsome to look at, fun to repage through, a joy to display . . . a collector's item. Future folks will come looking."
“Here is a book that never becomes outdated.” Reviewer Don Cates on The Beaches Are Moving.
"An absorbing, unflinching, and surprisingly comic account of how one man—a devoted father-withdrew from the world and gradually returned. It's as wise and instructive as it is compelling." Novelist Reynolds Price on Coming Out of the Woods.
“Unlike most environmental books being written today, Coming Out Of The Woods doesn’t try to scare the hell out of anybody, or smother with weighty facts, figures and insights. Instead, Kaufman entertains by telling a tale full of self-deprecating humor and common-sense insight.” Matt Bennet in Hardwood Matters.
"Coming Out of the Woods has the potential to be what is called in the music world a 'crossover'—a work that transcends the usual marketing categories. Kaufman has naturalist credentials that far exceed those of most environmentalists, and his insights can't be dismissed. By holding a mirror up to nature, he teaches us about human nature as well." Jane Shaw, editor, author, historian.
“In an age of political ‘correctness’ Kaufman has demonstrated great courage and integrity. He has tackled a challenging and controversial topic with clarity and without the rancor one might expect given his own history in the environmental movement. Kaufman's is a solid presentation of the historical development and present position of the environmental movement with a thoroughgoing understanding of the philosophical underpinnings of its early and contemporary forms. For many readers, this book will promote a new recognition, understanding, and sharpening of their own position.” Publisher’s Weekly on No Turning Back
.
“I really like the way the information is arranged—what it does to the ecosystem, how it got here and how to manage. I think I'll just sit down and read the whole thing. Great photos and so many references.” Reader of Invasive Plants.
From Thriftway Books on the Beacon Books anthology of environmental writing.
“No matter what you think about environmentalism, nature, and ecology, this book has an essay to challenge your assumptions. More than that, though: these essays don't merely challenge, but rather expand your viewpoint.. . . One of my own favorites is Wallace Kaufman's "Confessions of a Developer", an essay I found so fascinating that I wanted it to be an entire book of its own.”
Married Sarah Helen Ramsey, May 30, 1965 (divorced 1974). 1 child, Sylvan Ramsey. Married Kaeren Hawkesworth, April 28, 1984 (divorced 1990).