Philip Connors on The Mountain Knows the Mountain: A Fire Watch Diary

Philip Connors is a fire lookout, essayist, and author of four books. A former journalist at the Wall Street Journal , Connors has been a fire lookout in the Gila National Forest for over twenty years. In our conversation today we focus on his latest book, The Mountain Knows the Mountain: A Fire Watch Diary , the life of a fire lookout, attention and dialogue with place, and I reignite the question I asked him at live reading that has stirred my interior soup for months. I heartily recommend all of Philip Connors' books, The Mountain Knows the Mountain is my favorite. Visit Philip Connors at philipconnors.com Visit Contemplify at contemplify.com

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Philip Connors on The Mountain Knows the Mountain: A Fire Watch Diary is an episode from Contemplify by Paul Swanson.

This episode is 01:17:53 long.

This episode was published on Apr 1, 2026.

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