natural world 5
Ecological Curiosity for Faithful Feeling of Place: Mountain Nature and Strangers in High Places
So too does my eye for the Creator veiled and present in His evidence. Without them, how could I recognize what was first and larger in what I sense of…
Getting to Know the Neighbors
We can increase the aesthetic appeal of our neighborhood by smashing the suburban quasi-monocultures of landscaping plants purchased from big box stores and restoring the rightful biodiversity of our ecosystems...Behind…
Forest Rebel Cinema
With this love and materiality, these two films express the pure reality to which their protagonists are so devoted. In a world of frictionless unreality, endless abstractions, and tepid and…
Ishiguro’s New Novel Contemplates the Relationship between Humans, Machines, and the Natural World
Sterling, KS. In Kazuo Ishiguro’s eighth novel, Klara and the Sun (2021), the humans believe in science. The titular character, however, believes in the Sun. Klara is a solar-powered robot whose…
Unsolicited Advice for the Republican Party
Hidden Springs Lane. It is clear that the GOP is in disarray. The recent CPAC conference only served to highlight that the Republicans are bereft of ideas. Railing against “big…
