There was wind in the willows as the Water Rat and the Mole rowed their boat along the river. They were on their way to visit Toad of Toad Hall.
Articles with Conservation
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Walden Pond in Concord, MA • Photo by Eric T (CC BY-ND 2.0)
For wildness, hope lies in reality, not romanticism
“In wildness is the preservation of the world,” said Thoreau, and his felicitous phrase has become something of a mantra for conservationists.
New England, awash in light pollution • NASA (Public Domain)
Washed away in a sea of light
A few weeks ago I was with a group of students from MIT and Salem State College under clear dark skies at the Caribbean Marine Research Center in the Bahamas.
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Mother Nature can use some help
Seven a.m. The meadow mists are tinged gold by the rising sun. I cross the plank bridge over Queset Brook, skirt the water meadow, then take the higher path through the old orchard.
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The worst weed of all
Here’s one of the most important philosophical questions of our times: What is a weed?
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The technomutants are already here
No, I haven’t seen the new big-budget Stallone movie, Judge Dredd. But when my youngest son was living abroad he acquired a voluminous collection of the British comic 2000 A.D., in which the film’s eponymous hero held violent sway.
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Headlong toward nowhere
This is the sad saga of an American roadway.
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The day the elephants had had enough
“Elephants always remember,” Peter Finch says to Elizabeth Taylor in the 1954 film Elephant Walk.
Wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) • Photo by Tom Raymo
Tearing apart the web of life
It is a condition of the enjoyable that we have neither too much sameness nor too much chaos in our lives.
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Natty Bumppo’s early warning
“…the immense piles of snow that, by alternate thaws and frosts, and repeated storms, had obtained a firmness which threatened a tiresome durability.”