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DIANE ACKERMAN ON THE INTERNET
Diane Ackerman, who used the Internet while working on her book, The Zookeeper’s Wife, says: “The Internet is a volume in our library, a colorful, miscellaneous, and serendipitous one — bu… more →
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DIANE ACKERMAN ON THE INTERNET
thenaturalist wrote 10 months ago: Diane Ackerman, who used the Internet while working on her book, The Zookeeper’s Wife, says: … more →
LOVE
thenaturalist wrote 11 months ago: Peter Jenkins, a home-schooled student I worked with when he was in high school, was quoted as sayin … more →
BIODIVERSITY
thenaturalist wrote 1 year ago: Edward O. Wilson, in his Foreword to a June 2008 collection of scientific essays entitled Sustaining … more →
ROGER TORY PETERSON ON NATURAL HISTORY
thenaturalist wrote 1 year ago: Roger Tory Peterson once wrote, “The serious study of natural history is an activity which has … more →
COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS
thenaturalist wrote 1 year ago: In his 2007 book Curiosity and Enlightenment: Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the N … more →
KENN KAUFMANN ON NATURAL HISTORY
thenaturalist wrote 2 years ago: When Birding magazine (Jan/Feb 2007) asked Kenn Kaufmann what he would do if he could have one wish … more →
WHAT'S WRONG WITH US
thenaturalist wrote 2 years ago: D. H. Lawrence wrote: “Blood knowledge…Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from t … more →
EARTHWORMS
thenaturalist wrote 3 years ago: Darwin said of EARTHWORMS: “It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have … more →
PASSIONS
thenaturalist wrote 3 years ago: Thomas Eisner, Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell, has this to say about his high-mag … more →
ANCIENT RHYTHMS
thenaturalist wrote 3 years ago: According to Sigurd Olson, “When one finally arrives at the point where schedules are forgotte … more →
ANTS
thenaturalist wrote 3 years ago: In his book In Search of Nature, Edward O. Wilson asks, “How have ants managed to stay on top … more →
GILBERT WHITE'S WORLD
thenaturalist wrote 4 years ago: Gilbert White was born at a vicarage in Selbourne, England. As a child he moved about a hundred yard … more →
DARWIN ON HIMSELF
thenaturalist wrote 4 years ago: In his Autobiography, Darwin says several very humble and touching things about himself. Some of the … more →
RATIO OF DAY TO NIGHT
thenaturalist wrote 8 years ago: In his new introduction to our co-written revision of The Vermont Life Guide to Fall Foliage (2001), … more →
THOREAU ON SEASONS AND HEALTH
thenaturalist wrote 9 years ago: In Thoreau’s late natural history writings, he became passionately attentive to the natural wo … more →
WILD ANIMALS
thenaturalist wrote 11 years ago: In “The Language of Animals” (Wild Earth Summer 1998), Barry Lopez says: “I am alert for the luminou … more →
A FIRST-RATE INTELLIGENCE
thenaturalist wrote 38 years ago: In “The Crack-up” (February, 1936), F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “Before I go on with this short histo … more →
