John Muir’s 182nd!
Naturalist John Muir would be 182 today! Born on April 21, 1838, Muir sauntered his way from Scotland to Wisconsin before walking a thousand miles to the Gulf of Mexico…
Tag: environment
Smallest Predators
A wild thought was stalking me this morning: In the Great (scary) Outdoors, we used to fear the large predators: bears, mountain lions, wolves, sharks We killed most of them…
Feeling Knotty
Here in Western North Carolina the mountains and forests are tied up in twisted trails, branches, roots and vines. Nature can be so knotty.
Silent Stones
On a walk in the rain today, after writing my column on Silence, I observed this small fall where the water was all movement and sound. The stones, the boulders,…
