Tag: nature

What you miss out on by not making the climb is too great a loss on such a morning as this.

“Now nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain…” Aristotle, Politics Sometimes we might wonder about Aristotle. Was he observing the same world we are? One...

Our dwelling place is the state not of nature but of culture.

But, as Shakespeare wrote, we sometimes “by indirections find directions out.”

Contraception as Apparent Moral Good.  Most persons who use contraception conceive of it as a moral good.  They see an unruly, pullulating nature directed...

I’ve just finished Andrea Wulf’s beguiling book entitled “ Founding Gardeners, The Revolutionary Generation, Nature and the Shaping of the American Nation”. Published this...

Perhaps the tension will be useful when it comes time to make something of what is. Just be sure you make it in a place called home.

The diversity club ran its course, and has been replaced with "second-wave environmentalism," a.k.a. our culprit, sustainability.

To him, the created world is merely “resources” and fodder for “job creation.”

Call it Factory Planet: a world in which natural processes are treated as parts of a vast world-machine operated to produce a maximum amount of wealth for humans.