Politics and its Discontents

Yesterday's post featured the thoughts of my sister-in-law, Ruth, on how to restore humility and a sense of proportion. This morning, s...

Strange cacophonous sounds coming from the skies may seem like the prelude to a science-fiction film, but the phenomenon is actually happeni...

Those who read this blog with any regularity probably know that nature is something near and dear to my heart. I defy people to watch well...

I suppose it is the curse of consciousness that leads humans to see themselves as distinct from, and superior to, nature. It is a hubris tha...

Yesterday's post dealt with our troubling capacity for human supremacism , a capacity that is destroying our world. This seems a fitting...

Where I live, the summer has been, with just the occasional respite, unbearably hot. It has certainly interfered with one of my seasonal p...

* WARNING: This is one of those blog posts that is more philosophical than it is political. However, in another sense, it pertains to a...

For the sheer joy of it, I suspect: To know and respect nature is to know and respect ourselves. All is connected.

Watch this video to the end, and you will realize the question is not intended as an insult:

Last evening I watched a fascinating documentary on PBS' Nature * about the black crested macaque, a monkey that is endemic to rainf...

H/t Catherin Bradbury 'God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends, that plague thee thus!— Why look'st thou so?'—With ...

As our Cuban friends' visit continues, we are trying to give them a sampling of life in Canada. Yesterday we went to the Royal Ontario...

With thanks to Karen , I am reposting a poem that she left in the comment section of an earlier post . Karen writes, On Facebook I follow ...

Although I have written on this topic before , I think it merits a return visit, given the environmental disasters currently engulfing ...

Last year, I wrote a post on the power of the documentary . In it, I discussed how a good nature documentary can very powerfully help us...