We like to think we’ve come a long way in conservation. Which we have, sort of, writes Dana Wilde, but the Earth is right now undergoing its sixth mass extinction event.
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Dana Wilde: Poppop’s got a brand new jeejah
It’s hard to remember what life was like before syntactic devices, but it existed, writes Dana Wilde.
Dana Wilde: The still point of November
This month is an astonishing revelation if you know where to look, as angles of light point us toward cosmic truth, Dana Wilde writes.
Dana Wilde: The spirit of the tamaracks
While the world closes down in November, beauty knells up through the tamarack branches on the edge of bogs and winter, writes Dana Wilde.
Dana Wilde: Canada geese in October
In October comes a certain slant of light that seems to rise up out of some unseen spot of time and gather itself, and head south, writes Dana Wilde.
Dana Wilde: Wildfires, desperation, self-destruction
I still don’t know what will deter us from driving headlong into self-destruction by climate change, writes Dana Wilde.
Dana Wilde: The blue wanderers of the woods
Blue jays are tricksters who know what they’re doing, and also what they’re talking about, writes Dana Wilde.
Dana Wilde: Spiders in the day lilies
Little did we know in June that a veritable summer colony of nursery web spider families was setting up in the garden, writes Dana Wilde.
Dana Wilde: Life in the time of COVID, and climate change
I don’t know what else to do except to keep pointing to facts from the real world, writes Dana Wilde.
Dana Wilde: Within a budding grove of buttonbush
Buttonbush blossom is a natural miracle you can see performed every year, writes Dana Wilde.