After looking up a passage from Ecclesiastes for a previous Born Again Bird Watcher entry, I spent a little time reading further into that book – something I had not done for quite some time. As I read along, I came to the end of the third chapter, where it is written: I said in […]
John E. Riutta
About John E. Riutta
Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS, MemRES:
The Well-read Naturalist: The Big Burn
My review of Timothy Egan’s latest book, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America, is now available at The Well-read Naturalist.
The Big Burn
As long as humankind has walked the Earth, fire has been both its liberator and its nightmare. The same elemental force that enabled our earliest ancestors to put behind them their daylight-limited existence and begin to shape their world in ways beyond their own physical capabilities is also the central theme of our most profound […]
The Sea is Not Full… Yet
So saith the Preacher: All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. (Ecclesiastes, chapter 1, verse 7) Ten miles from where I was born and raised, and seventy-five miles from where my family and I now live, one […]