Sublime

Manche Berliner Amseln flöten heute wie Türglocken, Stare komponieren bisweilen Variationen über die Geräusche einer Baustelle – einen ornithologischen Rap auf Rüttelmaschine und Betonschneider.

No one—not biologists, not Eskimos, not backwoods hunters, not naturalist writers—knows why wolves do what they do.

It’s hard to think of something more anciently enchanting and connected than having a wild bird as a guide. Unlike modern men who have been taught to live in competition, Renias lives in profound relation with his surroundings. He knows how to hunt warthogs when they burrow in termite mounds and how to cook a tortoise. In some ways Ren is more in

One day I unrolled a rug on the grass, with the intention of lounging on it and reading my book in the sun. By the time I returned with the book and a cushion, the hare had already laid claim to the carpet. It leapt and spun in circles upon it at high speed, staying within its borders; like a gymnast practising floor exercises.

Under normal circumstances, a tree carefully apportions its energy.

Once he became a full-time Yellowstone resident and settled into his daily routine of watching the Druids, Rick found that he didn’t want to do anything else. Strictly speaking, he worked only forty hours a week, but he came to the park every morning regardless of whether he was on the clock. When he wasn’t officially on duty, he didn’t wear his

If he did skip a day, who knew what he might miss? The celebrated primate researcher Jane Goodall didn’t even have a college degree when she was assigned to watch chimpanzees in Tanzania, Rick liked to remind people, yet she was the first to record them using twigs as tools for fishing termites out of the ground, a discovery that upended the

by John Annerino’s Running Wild and Colin Fletcher’s The Man Who Walked Through Time. I had