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Rainwater
Art & AestheticsBusiness & Corporate CultureWildlife & Wilderness He had read an article about pulsars — the star version of a lighthouse that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation...
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Have Time, Will Play: 5 Easy Steps to Sketching Nature
Art & AestheticsSoil & TerrainWildlife & WildernessJohn Singer Sargent, plein air, and the result. [o]1 Look outTake a seat. Position your pencil to the page. Gaze outward. Widen your...
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‘Buck’, ‘Leaving’, ‘Nightfall’: three poems on the wild
IntimacyWildlife & WildernessBorders & Crossings LEAVING Twilight, the house dark,a Barred Owl, in a great folding of wings,slipped onto the walnut branch reachinga shadow across the picture...
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Summoning The Shrike
Suffering & ViolenceEcologiesWildlife & WildernessThe Loggerhead Shrike — a cute little bird by all appearances — on its preferred, barbarous locale. [o]In late January I hiked over to Furry...
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'Thump'
Prose, Poetry & PoeticsWeather & ClimateWildlife & WildernessMaxwell Johnson, 'Clouds in My Mind, #6.'A loud thump woke him. He was instantly alert.Waking was usually a slow process of...
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Saving animals, one book at a time
Art & AestheticsAnthropology & Social SciencesWildlife & WildernessInset of photograph by Billy Dodson. Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda, featured in Remembering Great Apes.Do you remember...
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The Prospect of Rewilding Humanity
Anthropology & Social SciencesRadical HabitationWildlife & WildernessThe beauty and 'terrible emptiness' of the Scottish Highlands. [o]“We are affected strangely by any place from which the...
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A Blanket Over Us — 5 poems by Julia Travers
Prose, Poetry & PoeticsEcologiesWildlife & WildernessMale and female northern cardinals in autumn. [o]EARLY MARRIAGEThere’s a male cardinal in the yard of our rented house who molts his red...
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On a Winter's Day, Circling: From a Land Steward's Journal
WalkingFinding & ForagingWildlife & WildernessTom Thomson. 'In Algonquin Park', Winter 1914-15. Oil on canvas. 24 7/8 x 31 15/16 in. (63.2 x 81.1 cm).The day started with a stain of blood on...
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When Deer is Not Venison
Philosophy & EthicsEcologiesWildlife & Wilderness'It panicked and ran from side to side of the tunnel, terrified and confused . . .' [o]I go out to pick kale for dinner to find it has already...
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Wild Uncertainties
Prose, Poetry & PoeticsWildlife & WildernessNumbers Wallpaper by artist Yuken Teruya. [o] in the pock-marked park fragments remain of vast forests in fading light a...
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Language, Nature and the Great Remembering
Prose, Poetry & PoeticsEcologiesWildlife & WildernessA river runs through the Caledon Hills, hopefully for a long time. [o]BELFOUNTAIN, ONTARIO— I had fun at my mum’s funeral. She was 94 when...
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On The Cusp of the Known World: A Field Guide & other poems
Prose, Poetry & PoeticsFinding & ForagingWildlife & WildernessON THE CUSP OF THE KNOWN WORLD: A FIELD GUIDEOctober mornings we wake to raspy buzz and jingle — the Lesser Anglewing,...
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The Spell of Travel, the Lure of Away
Movements & CommunitiesTravel & TransportationWildlife & WildernessGwaai Hanaas. Neil Ever Osborne, 'Their Home' (inset), 2015, C-print on archival paper, 16” x 24”. [o]QUEEN CHARLOTTE...
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'At the Foothills of the Mountains' and other poems
Prose, Poetry & PoeticsEcologiesWildlife & WildernessIn the foothills . . . "French kisses in three different languages." [o]AT THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAINWild/ daisies spread out on hills /wild/...
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