Lockdown Nature Notes, Part 1
July 12, 2021
During the long months of the initial lockdown in 2020 in the U.K., I spent time making these notes of the life in my garden. There is a good reason why Gilbert White’s The Natural History of Selborne remains a classic. It has been described as the journal of Adam in paradise. White, a clergyman, was wonderfully attentive to the small locale of Selborne and his journaling is full of detail about what he discovered. For example he says of
