What I see when I get a moment to pause and make a little sense of the world
Sixty million years ago, when tropical climes covered the Arctic, a small redwood species developed an unusual adaptation that shaped its destiny: Despite being a conifer — needle-leaved trees that are usually evergreen — it became deciduous, losing all of its needles during the months-long ligh
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Marianne North (October 24, 1830–August 30, 1890) was twenty-six and had just lost her mother to a long tortuous illness when her father took her to an oasis of wonder in the heart of London — Kew Gardens, one of the most biodiverse places on Earth: a lush affirmation of life bustling with life-
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“To be a flower,” Emily Dickinson wrote in her pre-ecological poem about ecology, “is profound Responsibility.
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Front Porch Reflections 