November 2022
Switzengland
Nowadays, the charm of a Little Switzerland is not a lofty, aesthetic ideal of Romanticism...
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Pine martens retreated to the rocky crags of Snowdonia and the Lake District…
There was a time after the last Ice Age when pine martens thrived all across the British Isles...
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Stirring Moss
Dillenius identified several mosses and fungi, under the heading Cryptogams, denoting plants that reproduce via spores...
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Hannes Schumacher on Les maîtres fous and Koriam’s Law
On a Sunday morning, practitioners of the Hauka sect leave the city to participate in a unique ritual in the countryside...
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The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
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The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
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I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
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The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read More
I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
Read More