As Scott Bates sees it, trees in autumn are involved in a joyous striptease.
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Tag Archives: Nature
Half in Love with Easeful Death
In his haunting “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats imagines himself as a homesick Ruth standing “amid the alien corn.”
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Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here
“Sandy” conjures up for me a traumatic childhood reading experience along with a passage from “The Tempest.”
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Hurricanes Make Us All Poor, Infirm, Weak
The onslaught of Hurricane Sandy reminds us of King Lear’s storm experience.
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Rain Soft as the Fall of Moccasins
Describing the slaughter of the buffalo herds by whites, Mary Oliver draws on Sioux religion to imagine them as not altogether gone.
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An ABC of Radical Ecology
Scott Bates’s ABC of Radical Ecology calls for us to keep fighting to save the environment.
Beasts of the Southern Wild–Our Future?
“Beasts of the Southern Wild” points to the devastation coastal communities can expect from climate change.
Summertime and the Living Is Easy
An afternoon spent in a friend’s boat brought to mind Huck and Jim watching the Mississippi River.
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A Summer Moment of Perfect Being
Li Po’s poem captures the joys of a summer hike in the mountains.
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