“If man cannot find a way to treat the soil in such a way as to preserve this source of life, and is unable to maintain it, we must expect the time to come when our human species, having squandered this vast inheritance, will disappear from the face of the earth…” Evelyn Barbara Balfour, British pioneer of organic farming (The Living Soil, 1943) Alena Malíková graduated from the University of Agriculture…
Day: October 3, 2021
David G. Haskell: Bird Voices and the Language of Belonging
David George Haskell is an American biologist and writer who is currently a professor of biology at The University of South Tennessee. He has published two books so far: The Forest Unseen (2012) and The Songs of Trees (2017). Both were nominated for a number of major literary awards (including the Pulitzer Prize), the latter of which received the John Burroughs Medal (John Burroughs…