The forest has always represented, for humanity, a space that is sometimes frightening, ambiguous, and fascinating—one we have had to confront. Thus, the forest is home to strange and hideous animals; treasures and secrets are guarded within it; fairies appear in various forms, and witches choose it for their sabbaths. […]
Yearly Archives: 2025
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January is the month when the branches of deciduous trees, now completely leafless, reveal their fractal-like structure, while Mediterranean flora is constantly renewing its foliage. It is the month when a new year begins, inheriting the fruits of the previous one, demonstrating how nature never interrupts its cycles and how […]
Migratory birds have remarkably consistent departure times from their breeding and wintering areas year after year, so much so that we refer to “migratory calendars” that define their different populations. Long-distance migratory species are especially punctual in their arrival and departure, often occurring on the same day or within the […]
December is the darkest and quietest month of the year. Winter spends its final days in silence, guarding the seeds of the many summer and autumn fruits, waiting for the light to slowly make them germinate, restoring them to a thousand lives.Giuseppe Ungaretti writes: “Like a seed, my soul also […]
According to Konrad Lorenz, Charles Otis Whitman and Oskar Heinroth, the first American and the other German, were two significant precursors of the modern study of animal behaviour. Active in the early 1900s, they were interested in birds. While Whitman wrote a monumental work on the pigeon (Columba livia), ducks […]