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Janisse Ray
American writer, naturalist, and environmental activist
Janisse Ray | |
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| Born | (1962-02-02) February 2, 1962 (age 63) BaxleyGA, US |
| Occupation | Professor, environmental activist |
| Language | English |
| Education | BA, Florida State, 1984; MFA, Montana, 1997 |
| Period | Contemporary |
| Genre | memoirs |
| Subject | nature, conservation, the American South |
| Notable works | Ecology of a Cracker Childhood |
| Notable awards | American Book Award, Southern Book Critics Circle Award, Southern Environmental Law Center Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern environment |
| Spouse | Raven Waters |
| Children | Skye |
Janisse Ray (born February 2, 1962) is an American writer, naturalist, and environmental activist.
Early life and education
[edit]Ray was born Baxley, Georgia to Franklin D. and Lee Ada Branch Ray.[citation needed] Ray’s ancestors were listed in the first census in Appling county in 1820 and the town of Baxley was named for an ancestor as well.[citation needed] From 1980 to 1982, she attended North Georgia College where she found her passion for ecology, which led her to her career.[citation needed] She received a Bachelor of Arts from Florida State University and a Master of Fine Arts from the Universi
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Trackless Wild with Janisse Ray
It has been a beautiful week here on the farm. Our friend the cowboy poet came to visit, and it felt as if we were actors on a stage. All around us the stagehands had painted wildflowers across the sandhills, and we walked about remembering our lines.
Janisse: How many head of cattle do you run, Sean?
Sean: Three hundred. How about y’all?
Janisse: Seven. We’re getting out of the cow business.
Sean: It can consume you.
Seven of the last ten years our friend has read on stage at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, and he’s invited to go out to Elko, Nevada for the next one, late January. They’ll pay him to stand up in his big Stetson hat and read his poems about bulls and barbed-wire and barefoot cowhands.
Sean Sexton runs a family ranch called Treasure Hammock near Vero Beach, Florida. He gets up at 4 in the morning to write poetry, because by daybreak he has to get busy moving cows or riding fence. He has to worry about drought and disease and dipping.
Spending time with a farmer is different than spending time with anybody else. Sean looks out at a pasture and says, “Look at that Bermuda grass” as if it is the most beautiful thing in the world. “Y’all make hay or buy it?”
I understand that talk, not like Sean does, but I sp
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