Our earth.
Lichen: 400,000,000 years of two-species partnership and counting. Fir needles: 280,000,000 years and counting. That’s a gap of 120,000,000 years, when lichens got their acids from rocks, rather than from trees, which […]
The sun came in under the clouds and illuminated the buffalo country. I felt the absence of the buffalo keenly. “Nature” seems to be no replacement.
To find currants in the crowded foliage of midsummer, just be there in the fall, long after the berries have gone to the birds. You’ll know where they are. Wild crafters know […]
Choke cherry. Starry False Solomon’s Seal. Only one is a tree.
Wet forest shade. Dry forest shade. Same forest. Same trees.
Water is key. And air. And incentive. Time for all divers to go to sea.
If your country started out as a chain of volcanoes …. …very exotic volcanoes… … in the tropical Pacific, very different volcanoes …. … in five different island chains over 150 million […]
Clouds join the poles… not of positive and negative electron charges, but of light and dark hills, created by clouds. In these grassland valleys, wind is the electrical charge. Notice: no wires. […]
A sail is a solar-powered device, which inserts itself within the intersections of solar, aquatic and atmospheric energy, all of which ultimately formed either by the sun or by the forces of gravitational […]
The image below shows a water strider. It uses the intermolecular bonds of water to hold itself up. If you look closely you can see the water bend beneath it, as if […]
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