Transcript If you’ve ever watched a nature documentary, you’ve seen a clip of it—a lion with muscles rippling sweeping across the savanna toward a zebra or gazelle. The lion is fully committed to the chase, bursting into top speed at a moment’s notice to satisfy their hunger. When it comes to getting their food, animals… Read More…
attitudes toward nature
10. Just like a tree
Transcript I’m thinking today about how a tree grows, from a seed. So I went to YouTube, and I found some time-lapse videos, just to watch the wonder of it all over again. There’s the seed, covered in damp soil. Then a few seconds in, something magical happens. We call it germination, but that’s such… Read More…
Opening to beauty
The scene above interrupted our dinner one recent evening, the sunset glow too beautiful to do anything but stare. We stopped eating and simply looked. Long golden rays kissed the tips of chamisa and rose and wild hyssop and Russian sage in our garden while at the same moment lighting up the Sandia Mountains a… Read More…
Snuggle for survival
The phrase leaped out at me—from the pages of Scientific American, no less. Martin Nowak, a mathematician, biologist, and director of a program in evolutionary theory at Harvard, was arguing that cooperation, not just competition, advances evolution. In Nowak’s words: Life is therefore not just a struggle for survival—it is also, one might say, a… Read More…