Month: July 2019
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Forests and Well-Being – Notes from “The Nature Fix”
Florence Williams’ book, The Nature Fix (Norton, 2017) summarizes some of what we know about how time in nature affects our well-being. It’s a “popular” book, but that’s not to say it is short on substance. Among the endorsements inside the cover is one from famed biologist Edward O. Wilson, whose work includes the biophilia hypothesis […]
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At the Grasslands, With Bug Nerds
I’m seeing more of the LBJ National Grasslands this summer than I have in a while, and it’s been wonderful. The rainfall over the past eight or nine months have resulted in a bonanza of plant life, which leads to a bonanza of bug life, and so on down the food chain. Yesterday, I visited […]
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This Is Our Land
When the sun comes shining, then I was strolling In wheat fields waving and dust clouds rolling The voice come chanting as the fog was lifting This land was made for you and me – Woody Guthrie Bang! It’s the Fourth of July. A day when we might celebrate the founding of this country, and […]
Our Lives In Nature 