H (trying to keep up with GR friends) Balikov asked Michael Barsa:

Do you plan to incorporate any of you environmental knowledge into a future book?

Michael Barsa Ah, what a wonderful question. Thanks so much for asking it. I think a lot about nature, and this becomes reflected in almost everything I write. Even in my novel, The Garden of Blue Roses, I managed to sneak in a fair bit of musing on our relationship to wilderness (the woods) versus cultivation (the garden). While I've also written nonfiction articles--both technical ones in law reviews and more popular ones in newspapers--I haven't yet been tempted to write a nonfiction book on the environment. But if I did write one, I'd model it after two of my favorites: Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and John Fowles' The Tree. They're magnificent works--deeply personal and at the same time touching on universal themes about humility in the face of nature's sublime power and beauty.

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