Is Earth Alive?
People across the ages have asked, what is life? How is it different from non-life? How are the two related? We have asked this question too, and now return to it in another framework.
Wondrous Webs
Toward the end of summer, people with gardens start to notice spiders hanging in magnificent orb webs. . . Now many of the females are big and getting ready to lay their eggs.
Flaming Forests
Fall is a wonderfully engaging season. The days are still long, though each one seems noticeably shorter than the one before. . . And—most dramatic—the leaves on the deciduous trees are turning color.
Our First Anniversary!
The first posts on Nature’s Depths appeared on November 15th, 2015, almost exactly one year ago. It seems appropriate at this anniversary time to step back and take stock of the journey we have traveled on together.
Root Lessons from Nature’s Sculpture Garden
The wild ocean coast of the Pacific Northwest is like a natural sculpture garden in which fantastical shapes abound. On almost any beach or cove you visit, you will find logs and uprooted trees in mind-boggling arrays, the trunks as straight as the beams of a house, the roots twisted in phantasmagorical convolutions. They have many lessons to teach us.
The Earth System
In the 13th century, Saint Francis saw Mother Earth as sustaining and governing human beings. Today we understand that the connection is even deeper, that human beings are inseparably a part of Mother Earth.