Reading Recommendation: “Dead and Living Memories” by Helen Macdonald, in the 17 September 2015 New York Times Magazine.
“We use trees to measure our own lives, to anchor our notions of time. To most of us, trees represent constancy and continuity, living giants that persist through many human generations. We want them to achieve maturity; we want them to tower above us.“
Image adapted from the New York Public Library Digital Collections.
Reading Recommendation: “Dead and Living Memories” by Helen Macdonald, in the 17 September 2015 New York Times Magazine.
“We use trees to measure our own lives, to anchor our notions of time. To most of us, trees represent constancy and continuity, living giants that persist through many human generations. We want them to achieve maturity; we want them to tower above us.“
Image adapted from the New York Public Library Digital Collections.
Reading Recommendation: “On Identification,” by Helen Macdonald, in the 19 June 2015 New York Times Magazine.
“There’s an immense intellectual pleasure involved in making identifications, and every time you learn to recognize a new species of animal or plant, the natural world becomes a more complicated and remarkable place, pulling intricate variety out of a background blur of nameless gray and green. …
Field guides made possible the joy of encountering a thing I already knew but had never seen before.”
Illustration adapted from The Peterson Field Guide to the Birds of North America , 2008.
Reading Recommendation: “On Identification,” by Helen Macdonald, in the 19 June 2015 New York Times Magazine.
“There’s an immense intellectual pleasure involved in making identifications, and every time you learn to recognize a new species of animal or plant, the natural world becomes a more complicated and remarkable place, pulling intricate variety out of a background blur of nameless gray and green. …
Field guides made possible the joy of encountering a thing I already knew but had never seen before.”
Illustration adapted from The Peterson Field Guide to the Birds of North America , 2008.
Dithyramb 