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- Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to…
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents…
- We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside,…
- Like many animals, wild ponies can sense a drop in barometric pressure. When a storm threatens, they know to seek shelter in hilly areas and…
- I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors,…
- Though not a natural world by any means, more like a collection of living dioramas, a zoo exists in its own time zone, somewhere between…
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