the Forest Unseen

Biologist David George Haskell examined a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest every day, for a year.

More on Haskell from the New York Times. Click HERE.

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David George Haskell on the Forest Unseen

Biologist David George Haskell spent a year making weekly visits to the same one-square-meter patch of old-growth forest near his home in Tennessee.  His writes about his experiment in "contemplative science" in a series of gorgeous essays, called "The Forest Unseen".

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