We spent a few days in Maine with uber naturalist, artist, author, professor, ultra marathoner and all around wild man, Bernd Heinrich. We stayed in his barely solar-powered cabin that is totally off the grid on hundreds of raw acres. (We had to get a ride in via his jacked up 4X4.) We chopped firewood, studied the birds, built flowerbeds, battled the black flies and got to know him and his wife. Bernd is connected to the Earth in a way that I will always strive for, yet likely never attain.