Pure Lepidoptery
What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to…
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Almanack Essays
Talking the Walk
It seems to me now that the spin of the world is speeding up, that…
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Watching Romuald
“Sit in your cell as in paradise,” stated the 11th century monk, St. Romuald. “Put…
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Middle Summer Retreat
Angels in the woods Of sassafras and pawpaw Making promises bf Unlike simple geographical locations,…
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Stilling the Kinematoscope
Keeping notes about events in nature over a number of years has shown me what…
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Almanack Essays: Slow Time
Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time…. John Keats,…
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Almanack Essays: Parish Phenology
The field of Nature being beyond the power of any one man to cultivate in…
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Almanack Essays: Home is the Prime Meridian
When I am restless, this landscape doesn’t seem enough, these few acres of woods and…
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