Sublime

“Little Warhorse,” Ernest Thompson Seton

He would be called the second Columbus. He had rediscovered America, it would be said. He was also seeing relationships and interrelationships between the Earth and life on Earth in a way that others before him had failed to do. So it would be perfectly fitting also to say that he was among the first ecologists.

On the seventh day I saw this island and immediately landed on it, pushing the boat away with my foot, which returned from whence it came. I watched it cut a swift passage through the waves back to its own land. And I remained here. At about three o’clock in the afternoon a sea otter would bring me food from the sea walking on its hind legs, carryi

she is a highly regarded mycologist and the chief identifier for the Pioneer Valley Mycological Association and is frequently contacted for assistance in identifying unusual specimens of fungi. “The mushrooms of the Northeast are my specialty,” Dianna explains. “I can recognize and tell someone a lot about a mushroom, its favored habitat, what it i

The oldest among them, the humble elder, a tall, stooped man worn fine as a clean, well-used rag by his years of service, so that the mildness of his temperament shone through all his looks and gestures,