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Study nature, not books!" advised the great 19th century naturalist Louis Agassiz. As a boy growing up in Alabama and northern Florida, Edward Osborne Wilson did both. By day he scoured fields, forests and streams. At night he pored over books and magazines. It was an article in National Geographic ("Stalking Ants, Savage and Civilized") that launched, at the ripe age of 9, one of the great scientific careers of the late 20th century, a career that began in entomology--with a particular passion for ants--but that has since reinvented itself with remarkable frequency, expanding its scope to encompass...
...Every life needs a defining struggle - an identity earned the hard way. Theodore Roosevelt was America's most combative and convincing struggler - warrior, hunter, rancher, naturalist: a bracing prehistory for the White House. Franklin Roosevelt's defining struggle was polio. The affliction that cost him his legs made him fit in a greater...
...focus on the gradual progression from iconographical elements to a naturalist setting ultimately culminates into the Fogg Museum’s core acquisition for this exhibit—The “Sacra conversazione”(also known as “Virgin and Child with Saints”), a Venetian altarpiece by an unknown artist dating from 1515. The altarpiece depicts the Virgin and Child occupied in a sacred conversation with saints, a “sacra conversazione.” With the paintings soft colors and sense of space, its former attribution to Renaissance masters such as Bellini...
...Wade decision, even though he has spent much of his career trying to overturn it. In another hearing room, Interior Secretary-designate Gale Norton, a James Watt disciple who used to champion the rights of oil companies and mine operators, insisted that she's now a tree-hugging naturalist who believes in global warming and has a soft spot for the Endangered Species...
...photographs, the acclaimed Dutch naturalist turns the flora and fauna of Borneo, Madagascar and the Amazon basin into objets d'art. Not a human is in sight, though Lanting's artistry and perseverance are hard to miss in these kingdoms where he was the intruder and adversary. As he notes, "I have seen leaf-cutter ants eat my tent, fungi grow in my lenses, and larvae emerge from the flesh of my leg." This reasonably priced volume is ideal for the bright child who needs to know there's a world beyond PlayStation2--a world of drama, danger and grandeur...