“Peculiarities of place, which have served so great a need in offering a choice to the selective forces that have elevated man, are still of invaluable use in giving the variety of characteristics that are required in the endless adaptations necessary in the making and keeping of a nation.”
A journey to the deep seafloor offers clues to how life flourished on Earth—and how it might evolve elsewhere in the universe.
Extracts from John Muir’s personal writings
Farming in New England takes place in an atmosphere of siege, but those Yankee dairymen who endure are among the best farmers in the United States.
He became famous as a half-Scot, half-Apache defender of wildlife, and some believe he should rank with John Muir and Rachel Carson in the environmentalists’ pantheon. But he was not exactly what he seemed