In 1941, when I was 5 years old, my parents built a house in the rural suburbs of Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was the classic American dream house, a two-story modified Cape, with a white picket fence around the backyard, a badminton court, a victory garden, and, of course, a lawn.
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On the contrary, Mr. Thoreau
“In wildness is the preservation of the world,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in one of his more self-indulgent moments, and environmentalists never tire of quoting him. Into the woods, they urge. Into the woods. That’s where we’ll find our salvation.
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Write good stories, not bad laws
Last weekend at the New England Aquarium Environmental Writer’s Festival, I was asked what I have been doing in this column for the past 17 years. What, I wondered, did “Science Musings” have to do with the environment?
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Romantics and the real world
Every now and then a book comes along that captures the spirit of a deeply felt environmental issue.