The Poetic Vision of Nature’s Complexity and Beauty Understanding the Depth of Nature Through Poetry Explore how Diane Ackerman’s influence on environmental awareness shapes our understanding of nature’s interconnectedness through her poetic...
As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached...
Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home. — Sylvia Earle Tags: #Time, #Ocean, #Slip, #SylviaEarle, #American, #ScientistMini who’s who: Sylvia Earle : American Scientist Born: August 30,...
I wonder what it’s like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America’s first black president? Pretty cool, I bet. —...
If you don’t die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you...