HeyJaredPedro Lourenço
Nature stories from a wandering biologist — gentle reminders that the nature is all around us, and that we’re part of it.
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Pieterpad 8: Three crossings of the Vecht on a perfect autumn day (opens the original)
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The Pieterpad is the longest hiking route in the Netherlands, linking the village of Pieterburen in the north to Sint Pietersberg, a hill near Maastricht in the southeastern corner of the country. It stretches for roughly 500 km across the country and is divided into 26 stages plus a prologue. I’m hiking the Pieterpad one stage at a time and will recount the experience here.Link to Stage 7It was now late September. We had already passed the equino
Chronicles from a planet that was blue: Chapter 9 (opens the original)
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Back in 2018, I wrote a book in my native Portuguese called Crónicas de um planeta que era azul (“Chronicles from a planet that was blue”), a collection of short stories, or sometimes something closer to images painted with words. These pieces are written, very loosely, from the perspective of an alien being studying our planet. Through that lens, they aim to draw parallels between human life and the lives of the countless other organisms that share spaceship Earth with us. This is the English t
Chronicles from a planet that was blue: Chapter 8 (opens the original)
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Back in 2018, I wrote a book in my native Portuguese called Crónicas de um planeta que era azul (“Chronicles from a planet that was blue”), a collection of short stories, or sometimes something closer to images painted with words. These pieces are written, very loosely, from the perspective of an alien being studying our planet. Through that lens, they aim to draw parallels between human life and the lives of the countless other organisms that share spaceship Earth with us. This is the English t
Olive tree (opens the original)
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Despite the increasing disconnect between modern society and nature, there are plenty of telltale signs all around us that indicate things weren't always this way. Think for instance of our language. Of the expressions we still use in everyday speech. I am sure there are many examples in all the many languages spoken worldwide. In English, if we want to refer to the distance to somewhere in a straight line, we may say "as the crow flies", a reference to the flight behaviour of the bird; or we ma
Chronicles from a planet that was blue: Chapter 7 (opens the original)
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Back in 2018, I wrote a book in my native Portuguese called Crónicas de um planeta que era azul (“Chronicles from a planet that was blue”), a collection of short stories, or sometimes something closer to images painted with words. These pieces are written, very loosely, from the perspective of an alien being studying our planet. Through that lens, they aim to draw parallels between human life and the lives of the countless other organisms that share spaceship Earth with us. This is the English t
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