Word: naturalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early months of the year, rivers overflowed their banks. "A spirit of change and recklessness seemed to pervade the very inhabitants of the forest," a naturalist wrote afterward. Squirrels inexplicably marched southward in migration, tens of thousands at a time. They plunged heedlessly into the Ohio River and drowned. Earthquakes reversed the flow of the Mississippi so that its waters surged upstream at the speed of galloping horses. Whole forests fell down, like stacked fields of rifles toppling. A double-tailed comet appeared in the night sky over America...
...Hetch Hetchy! As well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man." So wrote Naturalist John Muir almost 75 years ago in a vain effort to keep the U.S. Government from flooding Northern California's magnificent Hetch Hetchy valley, a Yosemite look-alike, to provide San Francisco with power and water...
...sounds, computerized software for keeping bird lists, and bird tours that reach any corner of the world, from Siberia and Mongolia (23 days, $3,595 from Wings, Inc.) to Madagascar, Mauritius and Reunion (25 days, $3,775 from Field Guides Inc.). Though some birders regard their hobby as a naturalist rejection of high-tech culture, the rebuke often requires frequent jet trips, Leitz 10 x 40-B Trinovid field glasses, Bausch & Lomb or Questar spotting scope and a Sony TCM-5000 tape recorder, especially souped up for birding by Saul Mineroff of Valley Stream...
...pere, driving in separate cars across the U.S. in 1986, are not exactly typical tourists. Nigel is a historian, gentleman politician and professional amateur whose most celebrated book, Portrait of a Marriage, describes the unlikely partnership of his homosexual parents Vita Sackville- West and Harold Nicolson. Adam is a naturalist ready to take over the family business of belles lettres. On their American tours, Adam, 29, relentlessly covers the West, stopping in on rallies in Berkeley, hanging out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas and tramping through the rain forests of Washington. Meanwhile, his 70-year-old father...
...dependent for its haunting power on the tonalities of her prose, at once intensely specific and mysteriously reticent, was too fine for the narrative demands of the screen. Out of Africa is a memoir and a collection of tales. But it is also an anthropologist's notebook, a naturalist's diary and a mystic's ruminations. And, yes, a duplicitous fiction in which time is compressed and rearranged, incidents conflated. The narrator granted herself a serene distance and freedom from quotidian concerns. How do you get all that into a movie and fulfill an audience's expectations for the form...