Heber Taylor

 The acorns of chestnut oaks look like chestnuts. I had to look twice when I thought I saw chestnuts on the ground, albeit without the hulls...

 Imagine that you’re on a ridge in the southern Appalachians. The ridge drops sharply — not 90 degrees but close — and the next ridgeline is...

Thoreau felt a little guilty about going cranberrying. You can ruin a good walk by looking at the world with  utilitarian  eyes. But he made...

 I read an article that claimed that myths have sustained the American republic and that the collapse of those myths wouldn’t have been poss...

 An interesting scientific paper suggests that Monarch butterflies are not arriving earlier in the United States but are staying longer in l...

 Yesterday’s note on Doris Grumbach’s  Fifty Days of Solitude  should have included an example of the kinds of items that make up the book. ...

 In the winter of 1993, Doris Crumbach spent 50 days in solitude. Her partner, Sybil, was on a long trip. Grumbach, at 75, wanted to get awa...