Although as human beings, we are in and of the natural world, we have nonetheless created our own artificial world, with very real ramifications.  We have removed ourselves from nature.  We live more virtually than really, as attested to by the popularity of so-called “reality” television.  One of the fundamental lessons of the natural world is to understand the fundamental reality of this planet.  In the natural world, not a one of the living things—plant, animal or fungus—has any awareness or understanding of our problems.  They are each and all concerned with one thing, and one thing only: survival.  Survival both on an individual level and a species level.  From the frantic crane fly laying eggs in the hard ground, to the hawk surveying the bleak winter landscape of the eastern end of the forest, this concern is immediate, real, and individual.  This section of the site features a personal, selective and eclectic response to various sojourns in the natural world.

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