His contributions to Adam Parfrey's Apocalypse Culture book series, and to literary journals such as Der Freund, include writings on interspecies karma, plant consciousness, ketamine, and the Paraguayan settlement Nueva Germania.

[7][8]: 176–188 David Woodard grew up in Santa Barbara, California, the youngest child of a Canadian Mennonite mother, part of the Kleine Gemeinde, and an American Hussite father.

[20]: 240–241 [21]: 126–129  Acknowledging McVeigh's horrible deed, yet intending to provide comfort, Woodard consented by premiering the coda section of his composition Ave Atque Vale (Hail and Farewell) with a local brass choir at St. Margaret Mary Church, near USP Terre Haute,[22] before an audience that included the following morning's witnesses.

[27][28]: 28–31 In 2004, acknowledging sustainable aspects of Nueva Germania's founding ideals, namely compassion, self-denial and Lutheranism,[9]: 34–41  Woodard composed the choral anthem "Our Jungle Holy Land".[29]: 41–50 [30]: ch.

[31][25] In 2011 Woodard granted Swiss writer Christian Kracht license to publish some of their private correspondence, largely concerning Nueva Germania,[32]: 113–138  under University of Hanover imprint Wehrhahn Verlag.

[36] According to Andrew McCann in 2015, Woodard embarked on "a trip to what is left of the place, where descendants of original settlers live under drastically reduced circumstances" and was moved to "advance the cultural profile of the community, and to build a miniature Bayreuth opera house on the site of what was once Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche's family residence.