Tag: nature writing
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One of my first books of 2025 was an audio form of Zoe Schlanger’s “The Light Eaters”, which considers the intelligence and communication of plants, opening up to consideration eg. the memory of plants of winter and the anthropomorphization of communication, leading to the false conclusion that human beings present the highest possible form of…
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Concrete Botany appears to be a promising book on urban ecology and a good introduction to plant identification. Even more so, after I found out that the author, Joey Santore, is actually Crime Pays. Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t, often shortened as Crime Pays by fans, is Santore’s youtube channel, on which he takes viewers…
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Salt Lakes had the potential to be something great – a great queer coming of age story, interwoven with a memoir about becoming a researcher of queer ecology or a great book about salt lakes interwoven with a memoir about becoming a researcher of queer ecology. That is not to say that it didn’t have…
