Listening Point

Poetic meditations about Olson’s cabin and his life there.

Poetic meditations about Olson’s cabin and his life there, now available in paper for the first time.

Many people have a special place where they go to experience nature. Perhaps it is a cabin, or a campsite, or a favorite hiking trail. For Sigurd Olson it was a bare glaciated spit of rock in the magnificent Quetico—Superior country of northern Minnesota. He called it his Listening Point, and it is at the center of his book of the sam...