Earth Day & Nature Cryptograms

Long before Earth Day existed as a calendar event, writers and naturalists were putting into words what many people feel but struggle to articulate: that the natural world is not a backdrop to human life but the foundation of it. These cryptograms gather the most luminous observations about nature — John Muir in the Sierra Nevada, Rachel Carson watching the tide, Thoreau at Walden Pond, Chief Seattle speaking about the land. They are puzzles that feel peaceful to decode, and whose messages linger long after the cipher is solved.

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