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Happy 4th! Favorite patriotic poem by Wendell Berry to celebrate. Be r/evolutionary! (Wonderful photography illustrating the real America 250th anniversary here via The Guardian) Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a car

Here is a beautiful story by marvelous naturalist and science writer Lynda Mapes for your reading pleasure. I copied it from The Seattle Times ( I subscribe) so you can read it without the pop up window demands. Here is a link to Common Macrolichens in the PNW. Color chart of PNW lichens for all you artist scientists out there: PNW Old Growth Forest painted by Suzanne Duranceau for Good Nature Publishing ‘See the whole world in lichens,’ the marvels that grow anywhere Ju

Wild to learn about the sex lives in our animal cousins. Who else knew about a fish that can change her ovaries into testes prn ? I didn't

Good Nature's summer sale starts June 22nd! Order any poster(s) and get a free set of Good Nature's placemat size mini prints absolutely FREE. Twelve of Good Nature's beautiful posters to give as gifts or fit in any nook and cranny at work or home to remind you to get outside and learn about our plant and animal cousins. The prints go out automatically with every order of $50 or more for a limited time. So you don't even have to ask. Perfect gifts for campers, teachers, b

June 20, 2026 My rant to the NYT on Nick Kristof's opinion piece below: By Nicholas Kristof NYT Opinion Columnist President Trump declared in March that a deal to end his war with Iran would require “unconditional surrender,” but that wasn’t quite right. The preliminary agreement he just reached with the Iranian regime was more like a conditional surrender — by the United States. In the past few days, various Republicans and war hawks have emerged, seemingly bewildered, to cr

I've printed the beautiful Northwest Woodland Wildflowers poster by award winning artist Jean Emmons. Jean took 9 months to watercolor the art she made of 34 natives you will find on your walk through the woods. How great a gift to. be able to paint like that! And see the plants so clearly? Amazing. NW Woodland Wildflowers painted by Jean Emmons for Good Nature Publishing I have a special offer for parks, forest educators, camps and master gardeners, master naturalists: throu

How many invasions by the US in other countries since Viet Nam? The forever wars are essential profit margin for the war machine that runs this country. Whether President Depends lost this invasion on Iran begs the question why we have lost every war we started since Viet Nam? Maybe winning and losing is beside the point? Maybe the profit margin is all that matters. Raytheon, Boeing, Amazon, Microsoft and Caterpillar stock bumps is what matters. Pop quiz: how many milita

What happens when you decide not to get frozen with grief at the ecological catastrophe unfolding before our eyes? One response is permanent warfare as conflict resolution. The capitalists are all set to kill us all off after they kill the rest of the plants and animals. There are several ways forward. I've been dreaming a stewardship society into being with Good Nature Publishing. Instead of seeing our species as the tip of a pyramid best and brightest, what if we are in

The classic Pojar & MacKinnon field guide has been updated and going to be pubished for August delivery. Chip in to this Kickstarter to help a great cause.

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Listening requires attention. And asking the right questions. But it really isn't that complicated. Just give a friend 10 or 15 minutes listen. Simple but difficult. They can be friends, family, strangers. Listen to homeless people if you can. Break through the illusion you are separate or less than or better than someone else. Does not matter who. Advance listening: trees and birds and bees :) The key question comes out of the book The Coaching Habit: the AWEsome que

Do you need expert listening and coaching once a month to navigate uncertainty into your new life at work or home? Transformation can happen faster when someone sees you, can help you be become more yourself at work, home and in between. Do you want to make some big changes but feel confused about next steps? I like working with small business entrepreneurs, activists and artists to help you see the goodness as De Mello says. Is that you? What to expect? I tune into what y

Tune in on the 19th of May to a conversation with Dr. Christine Webb, wonderful primatologist and author of The Arrogant Ape. I might be talking with trees and microdosing too much, but Christine Webb, forest ecologist and Mother Tree author Suzanne Simard , fungus among us Merlin Sheldrake Robin Wall Kimmerer and fellow plant talker Zoë Schlanger fill my head and heart with hope and possibility for our collective future. Put Webb's next talk on The Plant Initiative on you

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