One summer, while vacationing in New Brunswick, Canada, I took a ferry from the mainland…
Category: Literature
Charles Darwin is fascinating to read, from many viewpoints. There is, of course, the obvious…
It was lovely out in the country. Summer had come; the wheat in the fields…
For more than thirty years, I spent at least part of almost every summer in…
It is the rainy season in Beersheba, Israel, where I live. After the long, hot,…
In his essay, “Circles,” Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 19th-century American lecturer, poet, and philosopher, wrote:…
In Chapter 3 of The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin describes his work identifying…
This past weekend, I visited, for the first time, a tropical rainforest, one near San…
I was eleven years old when my mother enrolled me in the Boy Scouts of…
Gershon Ben-Avraham 