Sublime

The number of species that can be found on a healthy patch of reef is probably greater than can be encountered in a similar amount of space anywhere else on earth, including the Amazon rainforest. Researchers once picked apart a single coral colony and counted more than eight thousand burrowing creatures belonging to more than two hundred species.

The Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is twenty-three thousand acres in area, or roughly the size of the Bronx. Within its borders live twenty-six species that can be found nowhere else in the world. According to a brochure I picked up at the visitor center, this represents “the greatest concentration of endemic life in the United States and the

« Huxley a publié Île en 1962, c'est son dernier livre, poursuivit-il en remuant son riz gluant. Il situe l'action dans une île tropicale paradisiaque – la végétation et les paysages sont probablement inspirés du Sri Lanka. Sur cette île s'est développée une civilisation originale, à l'écart des grands courants commerciaux du XXe siècle, à la fois

The world looked to us—and now I speak as an American—to uphold a holy image, or as holy as it gets in this age of enlightenment. We have been the earthly garden, the abundant idyll, the productive Arcadia of the world’s pastoral dream. Between our shores has gleamed a realm of refuge and renewal—in short, the only reliable escape from history itse