RENEW YOUR SENSE OF WONDER
Listening Point
Ely, Minnesota
WHERE INTROSPECTION & CONSERVATION MEET
The Listening Point Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to preserving the physical land known as Listening Point and advancing Sigurd Olson’s wilderness philosophy.
SIGURD OLSON
ENVIRONMENTALIST
CONSERVATIONIST
AUTHOR
“I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using it, that there is a hard core of wilderness need in everyone, a core that makes its spiritual values a basic human necessity. There is no hiding it….Unless we can preserve places where the endless spiritual needs of man can be fulfilled and nourished, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.”
“the personification of the wilderness defender”
Edgar Wayburn, Former Sierra Club President, Northland College
“He made wilderness and life sing.”
George Marshall, Former Sierra Club & Wilderness Society President, Northland College
EVENTS FOR ALL
AGES & SEASONS
SUMMER
FALL
WINTER
SPRING
Community Care & Restoration
Sigurds home, writing shack and the ~36 acres of land are managed, cared for and supported by local community members & volunteers.
