David O'Hara is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD. He is a graduate of Middlebury College, St John's College, and Penn State. At Augustana College, he teaches courses in the history of ideas, environment and nature, American philosophy, and the philosophy of religion. He teaches outdoors whenever he can, including an annual course in rainforest and reef ecology in Guatemala and Belize; field trips to the Badlands and Black Hills of South Dakota; and frequent lectures under the large tree at the center of Augustana's campus quad.