… So my thoughts drown in this immensity: and sinking is sweet for me in this sea ( Così tra questa immensità s’annega il pensier mio: e il naufragar m’è dolce in questo mare). However, the sea of twenty-year-old Giacomo Leopardi was not made of water: it was the representation […]
Anna Lacci
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On 22 September we will start the actions of the “Operation Nun Seal” project.We think that the reader may find it unusual to dedicate a project to an animal whose traces are no longer found on our coasts, given that even sightings have been interrupted since the early eighties.But the […]
Climate change makes the August sun increasingly hot, the countryside is now dry, but the flowers never stop opening and, indeed, we see them appear in conditions that seem incredible to us. This is the case of the Apulian Bellflower (Campanula versicolor). The intense blue color of the campanulate corollas […]
Summer has arrived a few days ago, the sun perpendicular makes the days long and very hot. Most of the plants have finished their blooms and many annuals, grasses in the lead, have entrusted their seeds to the wind and to the animals, letting the plant dissect.However, there are still […]
The mechanisms that regulate the alternation of species on our planet are often described as an eternal “struggle for survival”. Anyone who has read Darwin carefully knows that this is not the case.It is the word “struggle”, so dear to the warmongering mentality of our species, which has little to […]
We begin our walk among the blooms that colour the end of spring and the beginning of summer from urban centers, and then enter the fields and finally head towards the coast. The Large leaved lime (Tilia platyphyllos) that shade the city avenues, delightfully perfume the air with their hanging […]
I dedicate the month of March to Jonathan Franzen, American writer and essayist, author of novels and writings that he regularly publishes in “The New Yorker” and “Harper’s”. A short essay and a collection of writings in which his way of being an environmentalist is expressed: without dogma and with […]
We dedicate this series of advice to four books by an author who is now popular not only among science experts, but also among those who appreciate him for his pleasant and captivating writing. Besides being an excellent popularizer, Stefano Mancuso is professor of General arboriculture and Tree cultivation at […]
Saying may be thinking of roses. It is to the roses that poets, painters, musicians of all time have dedicated their works. It is to the roses that we refer if we want to talk about feminine beauty. Yellow, pink, red, orange, violet, almost blue roses. Bush roses, vines, creeping, […]
The golden sandy shore that runs from the mouth of the Po almost uninterruptedly up to the Gargano, halfway between Termoli and Lesina runs along the Marina of the small town of Chieuti. A couple of weeks ago, after about forty years, I returned to Chieuti. The beach was always […]