Category Archives: Environment
Finding Harmony
We have a similar birth date and the same hometown, but otherwise I have nothing in common with Charles III, except a passion for nature that grew out of childhood and has never faded. I am no apologist for monarchy, … Continue reading
Job in the Whirlwind at the End of his World
William Blake was a poet, painter, printmaker, mystic, and, I vouch, a protoenvironmentalist. His painting: Job Confessing his Presumption to God, who answers in a Whirlwind, represents the crisis of his life. Job had a great life with his large … Continue reading
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Tagged Book of Job, William Blake
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Musical Moths
I love this project (click to YouTube).The musician Ellie Wilson worked with Oxford Contemporary Music and scientists who studied biodiversity to transform recordings of night-flying moths into music gently accompanied by traditional musical instruments.Moths are mysterious denizens of the night. … Continue reading
De-extinction of American Chestnuts
I have written before about the near extinction of American Chestnuts, called the greatest ecological catastrophe in the eastern forests of America.I tried (and failed) to grow saplings from four nuts received in payment for my article in the American … Continue reading
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The Kalahari and Okavango: from desert to delta and drought
My view from a window seat hardly changed on the flight from Johannesburg to Maun in northern Botswana. I rarely saw a farm or lodge in the khaki-colored plains below. A few gulleys ran irregular courses like the veins on … Continue reading
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Tagged Botswana, drought, Kalahari desert, Okavango Delta
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 