my delicious loose ends
Fireflies
I know I will search for fireflies all the rest of my days, even though they dwindle a little bit more each year. I can’t help it.
Friendly Land
“The desert is on the whole a friendly land.” —E.C. Jaeger, The California Deserts “It has become a habit among writers to describe the desert as a region of desolation, cheerless and dreary, a land of relentless heat, with every plant vested in thorns…
Elements of Beauty
“We can enjoy things more, the more we know about them.” —Walter Russell Bowie
Rainforest Life
“I have strong memories of many moments of joy and amazement when I lived in the tropical rainforest: listening to the deep reverberations of chimpanzees drumming against large tree buttresses to mark their territories, or watching from the terrace of my bungalow in western Ghana as the carmine sun turned deep purple before going down over an unbroken canopy of rainforest trees. I remember my astonishment when big fish belonging to half a dozen different species jumped into our boat as we drove slowly up a narrow tributary of the Amazon River.” —Claude Martin, On the Edge: the State and Fate of the World’s Tropical Rainforests
