Applying Gandhi’s Ideas to Climate Change – New York Times Annotated Our Towns Susan Stava for The New York Times Alison Broda practicing Zen archery at the Garrison Institute on Friday. It is a discipline combining intention and action, focus and carry-through. By PETER APPLEBOME Published: March 30, 2008 GARRISON, N.Y.   The idea of [...]

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The Magical Painting of Poussin – The New York Review of Books Annotated Volume 55, Number 6 · April 17, 2008 The Magical Painting of Poussin By Andrew Butterfield Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 12–May 11, 2008. Catalog of the exhibition edited by Pierre [...]

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Ecologist Maps Manhattan of 400 Years Ago : TreeHugger Annotated     hear Dr. Eric Sanderson speak about the Mannahatta Project-   he told us that Landscape of New York City 400 years ago would have rivaled that of Yellowstone or Yosemite today. Manhattan, or what the Lenape Indians called Mannahatta, was more biologically diverse [...]

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Ask About Nature in New York – City Room – Metro – New York Times Blog Annotated Ask About Nature in New York Leslie Day feeding seagulls from her houseboat. (Photo: Gabriele Stabile for The New York Times) Leslie Day, the author of “Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City” (Johns Hopkins [...]

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Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions – Art – Review – New York Times Annotated The wall labels in “Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions” at the Metropolitan Museum, one of the first major Poussin shows since the 1994 Paris Grand Palais survey and the first ever to focus on landscapes, read like mash notes, with paintings [...]

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