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The big picture
Working at Natural History magazine for eighteen years has been nothing less than a re-education for me, not because it immersed me in new...
Natural History, 10/01/02 by Ellen Goldensohn · More from publication -
Waiting to inhale
Many years ago, a friend invited me for a midwinter visit to her rented beach cottage on a Caribbean island. It was to be my first experience of...
Natural History, 09/01/02 by Ellen Goldensohn · More from publication -
This view of Steve
I write this editorial on the day after the untimely death of Natural History's longtime columnist Stephen Jay Gould. Phone calls and e-mails of...
Natural History, 07/01/02 by Ellen Goldensohn · More from publication -
Fast forward
HOUSE FINCH. Abundant in bottomlands, canyons, suburbs, and ranches in the West; uncommon but increasing and spreading in the East. HOUSE FINCH....
Natural History, 06/01/02 by Ellen Goldensohn · More from publication -
Transformations
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? --Anonymous One of the...
Natural History, 05/01/02 by Ellen Goldensohn · More from publication -
After all these years
I cannot look upon the Universe as the result of blind chance, yet I can see no evidence of beneficent design, or indeed design of any kind in the...
Natural History, 04/01/02 by Ellen Goldensohn · More from publication -
On earth and in the heavens
Like many people, I have found myself inexplicably moved by displays of color in the natural world. I have been stopped in my tracks by the sight...
Natural History, 03/01/02 by Ellen Goldensohn · More from publication -
Survivors
When I was a child, my family lived on the southeastern outskirts of Denver, then a relatively small city just beginning its sprawl onto the Great...
Natural History, 02/01/02 by Ellen Goldensohn · More from publication -
Why music?
If music be the food of love, play on If music be the food of love, play on --William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Human beings are inherently...
Natural History, 12/01/01 by Ellen Goldensohn · More from publication -
A late summer day
"Last autumn the wild geese flew day after day across the path of the shells." "Last autumn the wild geese flew day after day across the path of...
Natural History, 11/01/01 by Ellen Goldensohn · More from publication
