Author Sandra Cisneros reflects on the influence of nature and place:
I was one of those children who felt more at home sitting in a tree reading a book than with another child. I felt when I was a child that trees could talk, and I understood what they could say. I could talk to the […]
Via ::: wood s lot ::: this excellent Grist interview with Bill Moyers on Republican anti-environmentalism:
It stuns me that the people in power can’t see that the source of our wealth is the Earth. I’m an entrepreneur, I’m a capitalist. I don’t want to destroy the system on which my livelihood and my journalism rest. […]
We’ve had Mexican petunias (Ruellia brittonia) for years but recently I got these dwarf Ruellia species. They have the same flowers but only get a few inches tall, which makes the foliage look denser. I like the way the flowers look against the dark foliage. Another plus is that they are […]
Perhaps I am descended from the people in this story.
The first chapter of Scott Ogden’s wonderful little book Garden Bulbs for the South is about the amazing day in late August or September after thundershowers have drenched the parched land.
The electrical storms bring nitrogen from the atmosphere in the spattering drops of rain. Rain lilies know the difference between this thunderstorm water and […]
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