The great poem “The Waste Land,” by T.S. Eliot, begins with these lines: “April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire …”
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Susan Hand Shetterly is the author of nine books, including Settled in the Wild, which won the Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction in 2011. Her most recent title is Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge.
"One of my favorite sights begins as a line of dark shapes in the woods moving towards the clearing."
"In 1952, Charlotte’s Web came into the world, and it’s been with us ever since."
"I remember the first time I visited the 2,200-acre woodlot for sale in my town. It was in 2014, and Pam Johnson and I drove in to take a look."
If we give what’s wild half a chance, it will, as these fish teach us, do the hard part.
Perhaps animals gave us our first lesson in aesthetics, and that’s why we scrawled their images onto cave walls.
Can you put a tree like this back together? Can you make a half tree out of a whole one?
"In this strange new heat come new species, and some of the life we know slips away."
Joe Polis believed in learning how to negotiate the ways of the dominant culture without losing one’s own.
"Like the turkey vultures, I had come to Maine to make myself a good life."
Audubon taught me about the splendors of this continent’s wildness and about the human savagery often pitted against it.