Reflections

"There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot."
- Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac


A naturalist is equal parts scientist and poet, thirsting for knowledge and deeply moved by beauty.  As such, from time to time I find my scientific prose leaning precariously toward poetry as I wax lyrical to describe the overwhelming beauty of nature and the deep-seated desire I feel to protect it.

On this page is a collection of some of my most prosy poetry, my most poetic prose, my most lyrical philosophizing, gathered together as I reflect on the natural world and our precarious relationship with it.

(Click the text below the photograph to go directly to each essay.)


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