Sound Full of Rainbows

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Grateful Dead songs evoke the splendor of the natural world

Rights of Nature: A Reading List – JSTOR Daily

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The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR.Western political and legal systems are founded on human exceptionalism: the idea that we stand apart from, with dominion over, the rest of nature. This has facilitated rampant environmental destruction….

The Futility of Simulating Nature

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In “The Anthropocene Illusion,” the photographer Zed Nelson captures how the natural world has been reproduced, reshuffled, and repackaged, sold to visitors in the form of spectacle.

Wild Clocks

Emergence Magazine

Attentive to the loss of age-old ecological relationships as “wild clocks” fall out of synchronization with each other, David Farrier imagines an opportunity to renew the rhythms by which we live. In every living thing, there ticks a clock. “Lodged in all is a set metronome,” wrote W. H.

This Spider Uses a Light Show to Trick Eager Male Fireflies Into Its Web

Imagine being a male firefly when suddenly the telltale flashing of a female catches your eye. Enthralled, you speed toward love’s embrace — only to fly headfirst into a spider’s web.

The Problem of Nature Writing

The New Yorker

The Bible is a foundational text in Western literature, ignored at an aspiring writer’s hazard, and when I was younger I had the ambition to read it cover to cover.

Searching in Sweden for Berries, Herbs and Understanding

A pot of birch sap simmered on Eva Gunnare’s stove. It was an early morning in May in Jokkmokk, a small Swedish town in the Arctic Circle, and outside the snow was melting. On the table sat a plate of cookies made with dried bilberries, a native fruit that Ms.

The Day the Desert Taught Me a Lesson

Outside Online

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. In the short story “The Orrery,” Barry Lopez writes about a strange encounter in the Sonoran Desert.

I walk therefore I am

the Guardian

The Cairngorm mountains of north-east Scotland are Britain's Arctic. In winter, storm winds of up to 170mph rasp the upper shires of the range, and avalanches scour its lee slopes. Even in summer, snow lies in the deeper corries of the massif, sintering slowly into ice.

Wild and Wilde: At Celebrity Cemetery, Nature Takes on Starring Role

PARIS — Dry leaves rustled under Benoît Gallot’s footsteps as he rambled his way across the rugged terrain. Stopping by shrubs of laurel and elder, he pulled aside their foliage to uncover a crumbling stone colonnade. A parakeet, perched up in a nearby tree, squawked.

The Rappahannock River at Carter’s Wharf is Rich with History and Wildlife

The Rappahannock River at Carter’s Wharf is spectacular, even if you don’t bring a boat. Just driving in on Carter’s Wharf Road is dramatic, as it dives down a steep ravine to the water.

How I Started to See Trees as Smart

The New Yorker

A couple of decades ago, on a backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada, I was marching up a mountain solo under the influence of LSD. Halfway to the top, I took a break near a scrubby tree pushing up through the rocky soil.

Harriet Tubman, an Unsung Naturalist, Used Owl Calls as a Signal on the Underground Railroad

Audubon

Many people are aware of Harriet Tubman's work on the Underground Railroad and as a scout, spy, guerrilla soldier, and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War. Fewer know of her prowess as a naturalist.

How “Termites of the Sea” Have Shaped Maritime Technology

JSTOR Daily

For most of history, ships and docks were at the mercy of spineless, often invisible pests that wreaked far more havoc than the sirens or sea-monsters of lore. They are the marine wood borers: shipworms, pillbugs, or gribbles.

Plant of the Month: Garlic Mustard

JSTOR Daily

In a video posted in the early months of the pandemic, “Cooking with Neighborhood Weeds”, popular TikTok forager Alexis Nikole Nelson (@alexisnikole) shows viewers, whom she notes might be “still afraid to go to the grocery store,” how to make a delicious pesto from a weed “that’s probab

The Wolf That Roamed to Southern California

The New Yorker

Of course, he was looking for love. Aren’t we all? And he seemed to be looking for it in all the right places—namely, the southern coastal counties of California, where he was, literally, the lone wolf, with seemingly no male competitors at all.