Alexandra Horowitz

Alexandra Horowitz is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know; Being a Dog: Following the Dog into a World of Smell; and Our Dogs, Ourselves. She is a dog-cognition researcher and teaches at Barnard College, where she runs the Dog Cognition Lab. She has written about topics as varied as attention, imitation, fairness, guilt, captivity, patents, play, and footnotes; from animal representation in children’s books to things people say to their dogs; from anthropomorphisms of animals to dogs in movies. She has been described as “a New World reverse of the Oulipo eminence Georges Perec,” a “skilled investigative reporter,” and a “reasonably sane adult human.” She lives with her family and two large, highly sniffy dogs, one cat, and one puppy in New York City.

3 words to describe Nature?

Integral. Formidable. Omnipresent

3 things Nature taught you?

Respect the unknown

There is wisdom in tree growth and bird activity and mosses. 

Nature is everywhere.

3 most treasured Nature spots?

Among giant redwoods 

On a walking path in the Japanese Alps 

In our local forest surrounded by my family

When you look at the ocean, it makes you feel...?

Awed. I'm humbled by the ocean, which does not care about me. I treat it carefully. 

When you see a forest, it makes you feel...?

Delighted that there is such a community without people. 

When you see a volcano, it makes you feel...?

I've never seen a volcano 

When you see a sunrise or sunset, it makes you feel...?

Pleased to have color vision.

When you hear thunder, it makes you feel...?

Moved to go indoors. 

When you hear the wind howling, it makes you feel...?

Like smelling into the breeze. 

Are you an Ocean, Mountain, Forest, or Desert person?

Forest 

On a scale of 1 to 10, how important is Nature to your well-being?

10 

Share with us a childhood nature memory?

Remembering camping with my dog among quaking Aspen in the high country of Utah, my senses are all awakened: between the perfect clarity of the air, the smell of drying grasses and sage, and the sound of Aspen leaves gently tinkling against each other.


Kelly Lund

Kelly is an avid outdoorsman, photographer, and owner of Loki. A few years ago, he started an Instagram account for Loki, his adventure dog,  playfully logging their everyday life.

A photo of the two sleeping in a hammock together  landed on the front page of Reddit,  shortly thereafter it was picked up by Bored Panda and BuzzFeed.

Loki shot to Instagram fame and hasn’t showed signs of slowing down.

Kelly shares photos of the two traveling across North  America, often taking their favorite brands with them along the way. Kelly and Loki can be found backcountry snowboarding in Colorado, on a mountaintop in Canada, or roaming the deserts of Utah. They want to push the  limits in the great outdoors of what a human-dog relationship can be, all while capturing photos to share with the world.

3 words to describe Nature?

Home. Beauty. Life

3 things Nature taught you?

That we are just one small thing in this world, it gives me perspective.

To slow down and appreciate the sun when it’s out and the rain, and all the senses that come with them both.

It has taught me to have a hunger for what is out there, a hunger to keep exploring to see everything we can.

3 most treasured Nature spots?

Crescent city, CA

Brooks Range, AK

Cedar mesa, UT

When you look at the ocean, it makes you feel…?

Calm and peaceful.

When you see a forest, it makes you feel…?

Like I’m wrapped up in something - enveloped by the trees.

When you see a volcano, it makes you feel…?

Like i have an expiration date.

When you see a sunrise or sunset, it makes you feel…?

Like a something is starting or ending - it’s the next thing coming.

When you hear thunder, it makes you feel…?

Mischievous

When you hear the wind howling, it makes you feel…?

Surrounded by nature

Are you an Ocean, Mountain, Forest, or Desert person?

Ocean - it’s in my blood

On a scale of 1 to 10, how important is Nature to your well-being?

100

Share with us a childhood nature memory?

Building forts in the Redwoods outside of my hometown, Crescent City.