Fire comes from the centre of the solar system. Water comes from the edge of the solar system. They meet on earth. You would think they might extinguish each other, but no. […]
Life (and chipmunks)
The Wonder of Life & The Wonder of Death
Earth crystallizing around light, climbing a ladder to the sun. Look at it! Rhododendron Shoots, Campbell River That’s the spirit of this planet. This is not: Gopher Trap (Sprung) (Protecting a lawn from […]
The Simplest Things
Grass is simple. It stands up, it falls down under the snow, and it stands up again. Wait. That’s not simple, is it. Na. But it is beautiful. It’s not the GDP […]
Snails Like Drops of Rain
Sometimes water flows. Sometimes it pools. Sometimes it absorbs light. Sometimes it bends it. Sometimes it sends it back into the sky. Because life follows water’s energies, it does all this too. Seaweed and […]
Beautiful Red Water
Yellow and orange, too. In braids. Running over shells on its way to the Pacific Ocean. Stream Soaked in Red Cedar Roots, Pacific Rim National Park, Vancouver Island I don’t think we know enough […]
100 Photographs for World Water Day
For the love of water and the love of life, I’ve collected a few photos from here and from http://www.afarminiceland.com. (click on each image for title and to enlarge) … I’m off to […]
Evolution and Randomness
Ah, evolution. Great Blue Heron on His Barn Roof, Watching for Mice Below (Click.) Is evolution a random process? Is life itself random? Did life arise on earth randomly and then develop randomly? […]
Of Humans and the Earth
Recently, I gave the Fourth Annual Haig-Brown Memorial Lecture in Environmental Writing, in which I argued for, among other things, the inclusion of other species into personhood and human identity, and demonstrated […]
Want to See Something Beautiful?
Look at these guys! Knapweed Root Weevils Going to Town Knapweed, the scourge of the West, the plant from Hell (well, Stalingrad), has met its match, thanks to a pest importation program. […]
Slow Photography, Light Lithography, and Silence
Take a look at the photograph of the sun the lichen on this Icelandic rock took over many years.The sun doesn’t have to be bright to shine. Today the sky was an […]
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