Selected Writings

Many years ago, after snorkeling off a deserted Caribbean beach, I got out of the water with my gear and knocked my head into a large spreading tree. I knew the tree, shaped like an enormous overturned bowl stuck in beach sand, was a Manchineel.

Biophilia accounts for the symbolic use of animals in children’s stories, our appreciation for a sunset over a Grand Canyon skyline, and our deep sense of well-being in a woodland. A slew of new research suggests nature is like a drop of morphine for the human brain.

Chronicling the natural history of ten iconic seabirds, the delightful The Seabird’s Cry by Adam Nicholson focuses on individual behaviors and communications between members of a colony.

New technologies and products are transforming the way we build with wood.