I would like to show you the little valley I live in. I think the future depends on what we see here. Vernon Creek Valley, Okanagan Landing. Okanagan Lake is to […]
How Universities are Causing Global Warming and What to Do About It
Putting a Face to Nature
This is not nature. It is a shrub. This is not nature. It is another shrub. This is not nature. You got it. Another shrub. This is not nature.It’s grass. This is […]
Light and Shadow in the Grass
I promised I would show you some images of a tension I’ve noticed in Western culture. It’s a living tension, that comes in variable forms. First… Shadows of Grass on Stone … and second … Lit Grass […]
Beauty: Measuring Device
Autumn is upon us. A time of fruitfulness.Look closer. What a beautiful one! It’s fair to say that what I, a human, observe as beauty is not necessarily aesthetic, yet is attractive, in […]
Beauty and Science
Science is a cultural product, no less so than this: Canadian Garden Decoration, Orchard Hill Not only has the lion lain down with the lamb but it looks like one, too! […]
Asparagus in Glory: Science and Language Part III
The other day I was discussing how the language of science influences the world that scientific exploration and method allows us to see. Behind that is the observation that if the language […]
Ethnobotanical Knowledge: The Language of Science Part 2
Remember? Yesterday I pointed out that each of the plants below, although far apart in botanical class-action, share the power of redness, which arises at different points on each plant, stem, leaf and […]
The Language of Science, Part 1
Look around. Earth in a bit of distress? Not quite looking up to her old self? Attention, Tractor Drivers! Snakes are Sacred, You Guys! (Poor little baby bull snake meets the Seasonal Foreign […]
Environmental Poetics
If sun … Trembling Aspen … or shade … Jerusalem Artichoke … were continuous … Saskatoon … or even divided … … there would be no life.They act as a […]
The Unity of Plants vs. Human Hate
The science based on Darwin holds that plants evolve over time to fit various ecological niches. This bunchgrass, for example, evolved to take advantage of hot, windy climates. The science based on […]
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