Nature’s Depths

Walking through nature with John Palka, a neuroscientist who loves plants and ponders big questions

Rumination

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Winter Solstice

Rumination

For those of us who live in the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter Solstice is approaching. The days are gradually getting shorter while the dark of the nights is lasting longer. After December 21st, the shortest day of the year, the days will start to lengthen again, at first imperceptibly and then more noticeably.

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Milkweed seed pod opening, Prairie Oaks Institute

In the Autumn of the Year

Rumination

“Autumn is a season of great beauty, but it is also a season of decline: the days grow shorter, the light is suffused, and summer’s abundance decays toward winter’s death. Faced with this inevitable winter, what does nature do in autumn? She scatters the seeds that will bring new growth in the spring—she scatters them with amazing abandon.”

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