Some Native American traditions teach that it is only through a profound experience in your life that you discover your true name. Not long after taking up bird watching, I discovered mine: Stumbles Through the Forest Frightening the Wildlife. No matter what I did, the minute I stepped out of the car and onto the […]
Continuing the expansion of the now internationally-renowned Kaufman Field Guide series, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has announced the forthcoming publication of the first of a new group of more general natural history field guides under the Kaufman series name: the Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England by Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman. Initial pre-release information indicates […]
As Dunne so well repeatedly depicts, our modern interpretations of time are not appropriately applied to the Arctic. Autumn does not begin with the turning of the leaves; it begins – biologically as well as metaphorically – at the first second following the Summer Solstice.
As short a book as it is, Life Everlasting is a lively collection of stories, investigations, reflections, and musings all joined together by a central theme – that of not just how the remains of the dead are reincorporated into the cycle of life but, perhaps more importantly, why they are.