"What this research suggests, however, is that we need to make time to escape from everyone else, to explore those parts of the world that weren't designed for us. It's when we are lost in the wild that the mind is finally at home."

"An egg case or egg capsule, colloquially known as a mermaid's purse or devil's purse, is a casing that surrounds the fertilized eggs of some sharks, skates, and chimaeras." from Wikipedia.

"Collected here are recent scenes from nuclear-exclusion zones, blighted urban neighborhoods, towns where residents left to escape violence, unsold developments built during the real estate boom, ghost towns, and more."

"If they have a connecting thread, it’s their distrust of 'dead, anonymous, industrialized, genetically engineered, and chemicalized corporate food.'" from The New Yorker.

"...Amblypygids are also known as whip spiders and tailless whip scorpions..." from Wikipedia.

"'We have become divorced from nature, trapped in colorless boxes.'" from Outside.

"One of the acknowledged wonders of the natural world, the Great Barrier Reef stretches along the coast of Queensland, Australia, in a riotous profusion of color and form unparalleled on our planet. But global warming and pollutants so threaten this fragile monster that scientists now believe the reef will be devastated in coming years. As a homage to the Great One, Margaret and Christine Wertheim of the Institute For Figuring instigated a project to crochet a woolen reef. "

"Welwitschia..., which is considered a living fossil, is named after the Austrian botanist Friedrich Welwitsch who discovered it in 1859." from Wikipedia.

"Jōmon Sugi is a large cryptomeria tree located on Yakushima, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Japan. It is the oldest and largest of nearly 2,000-year-old-growth cryptomeria trees on the island and is estimated to be between 2,170 and 7,200 years old." from Wikipedia.

“Movement is our nature, Nature is our movement.”

Human genome at ten. The more biologists look, the more complexity there seems to be. Erika Check Hayden asks if there's a way to make life simpler. from Nature News.

over 30 different organisms ranging from trees to predatory fungus to ancient bacteria.

"My work is landscape-based, rooted in a subtle exploration of humanity’s complex relationship with nature and, by extension, with itself."

"...physicists have been accelerating gold nuclei around a 2.4-mile underground ring to 99.995 percent of the speed of light and then colliding them in an effort to melt protons and neutrons and free their constituents — quarks and gluons. The goal has been a state of matter called a quark-gluon plasma, which theorists believe existed when the universe was only a microsecond old." from NYT.

In the last two decades, network theory has emerged as a way of making sense of everything from the World Wide Web to the human brain. Now, as ecologists have begun applying this theory to ecosystems, they are gaining insights into how species are interconnected and how to foster biodiversity. from Yale Environment 360.

Combining his carpentry skills with his love of nature, Patrick Dougherty began to learn about primitive techniques of building and to experiment with tree saplings as construction material. Beginning about 1980 with small works, fashioned is his backyard, he quickly moved from single pieces on conventional pedestals to monumental site-specific installations that require sticks by the truckload. To date he has built over two hundred such massive sculptures all over the world.