So, here’s a change that’s been ongoing for some twenty years now: aspen leaves getting hollowed out by leaf miners, which aren’t getting killed off by cold winters. One sees a lot […]
When is Climate Change Not?
Time Among the Trees
In silhouette, a tree is a web. Call this the accumulation of time, all at once. In full sun, it is a mysterious process of branching. Call this the process of entering […]
Burn Baby Burn
The flicker perches in the flame. The damselfly survives the cold of September, extending summer, by perching on a rock that absorbs the flame. Humans hold the flame (of burning flicker trees) […]
The Aspens and the Woodpecker
The big, majestic and oh-so-cheeky pileated woodpecker loves to peck away at poplars, including the aspens below. Pileated Woodpecker Chopping Wood at The Painted Chasm Every one of those aspen trunks (and […]
What Aspens Can Teach Us
Aspens are powerful, because they are many and one: many trunks from one underground life. These are not individuals. They aren’t even trees. They are individual expressions of wholeness. We do well […]
The Spiritual and Technological Roots of Individualism in the Environment, part 1
Boundaries give focus. They’re also wildly frustrating. Grey Canal Trail, Bella Vista Hills A general human glance does not have boundaries like that. Neither, though, is a human glance — or human […]
Wasps: Workers in the Furnace of the Sun
It takes a particle of light 100,000 years to rise from the core of the sun to its surface, eight minutes to make it to Earth, and no time at all to complete […]
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