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Everybody’s Story
EVERYBODY’S STORY: WISING UP TO THE EPIC OF EVOLUTION Loyal D. Rue. State University of New York Press, 1999 (SUNY series in Philosophy and Biology, D.E. Shaner, Editor) TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreward by Edward O. Wilson Preface Introduction Part I: How...
On Freedom
Book review of Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom Jason Keune In Maggie Nelson’s new book, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, she invokes, or rather curates, a vast landscape of contemporary thought and thinkers in an expansive exploration of a rich, yet elusive...
Finding the Mother Tree
I’m writing to recommend a book. Finding the Mother Tree – Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, Dr. Suzanne Simard. Simard has put together summations and descriptions of her experiments and findings from her career as a forest ecologist that started as a child in a...
Diary of a Young Naturalist
I shared a poem recently and it came from this remarkable book by Dara McAnulty - Diary of A Young Naturalist. It is probably more about autism than nature. But I am stunned by the brilliance of this young autistic man whatever the intent of his writing. I'm left...
Poetry by Janisse Ray
Noticing 1. I would not have seen the weba spider strung between us and skyexcept the sun crested the cliffalong the Bay of Fundy. Finallyour long night beside Mill Creekwas over: I greeted the light.A shimmer is not a moon-blade,not the disk of sun platingtips of red...
Maximus Thaler
Maximus Thaler At his website, Maximus describes himself as “a wandering scholar, artist, activist, chef”. Our reviewer particularly liked items in the Creations area, including wire sculptures and photography.