I also love this passage from Mary Oliver's Upstream. The way she wrote of nature--her reverence for the natural world--is urgently...

I must acknowledge that I am apt to share and appreciate writings which impose a degree of human nature or sentiment on other organisms....

An excerpt from the Windward Road by Archie Carr reminds me of L., our Everglades wading bird project supervisor who truly has an uncanny...

In 2013, I spent three months studying Black-headed Pittas in the tropical forests of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo. This poem by Alexander...

I have a treasured compilation of '100 best loved poems', which I purchased at the Cornell University bookstore in 2009, my first year as...