Nature
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Wild About the Art of Hoping Well
My relationship with hope has been an uneasy one and that uneasiness is only exacerbated by the relentless onslaught of the climate crises. Without a doubt, it is hard to be hopeful when…
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Wild About Nature Apps
Downstairs on my bookshelves, I have an entire collection of well-worn field guides on everything from insects to wildflowers. Most of them, however, I haven’t opened in years. Like most people, if I…
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Wild About Biophilia
“No one will protect what they don’t care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced.” – David Attenborough If you live in an urban environment, it can sometimes…
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Wild About Desire Paths
We’ve all done it. Stepped off the designated path to take a shortcut or check out a more interesting feature. When enough people follow in each other’s footsteps along an alternative route, that…
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Wild About Seeds
Seeds can be large as coconuts or as tiny as dust. They may have wings or hooks or they may be perfectly round and smooth. Some seeds are covered with hairs while others…
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Wild About Umwelt
Each of us experiences the world differently. Two people living in the same house go to different places, have different conversations, or watch different television programs. Even when there is overlap, our perceptions…
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Wild About Urban Nature
Today, 80% of Canadians live in cities. As our migration to urban areas has increased over the past 100+ years, so has our separation from nature. Despite our concrete roadways and our lawns,…
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Wild About Wonder
“It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones…Puny you may feel there, and vulnerable, but not unnoticed. This is a land to mark the…
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Wild About Spring
As I’m writing this, it’s snowing—big, fat flakes that come in spring storms, when we’re too tired of winter to appreciate how pretty it is. As a date on the calendar, spring begins…
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Wild About Megafauna
Beavers the size of a fridge. Elephants covered in fur. Giant camels that roamed western North America. If you go to any ice age exhibit at a natural history museum, you may wonder…
