There will be a long stretch of our lives during which our minds will be pre-occupied with a low hum, a dull, nonetheless intense, feeling of tension. Each of us will feel the viscerally appealing pull backwards to an idealised, romantiscised past, and an opposite pull forwards toward an enticing, utopian ideal. Below, I lay …
The New Naturalist has an awful lot to do with self-development, and increasing one’s capacity to remain steadfast in the pursuit of understanding the truth of a given situation. It means being able to follow a dark, corrupt story right to its bitter end of immeasurable human suffering without losing your marbles. And without resorting …
I think The New Naturalist is best described as an ideal to strive for. A hypothetical individual who deeply understands the complex, multifactorial ecological problems confronting humanity, and who knows how to go about actually solving them. The New Naturalist is rigorously scientific and ruthlessly honest about their analysis of any given situation. As a …
