Geoff Wisner
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Geoff Wisner
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Author of A Basket of Leaves (2007). Editor of African Lives (2013), Thoreau's Wildflowers (2016), Thoreau's Animals (2017), A Year of Birds (2024), and George Templeton Strong: Civil War Diaries (January 2026!).
...the work, probably, of a mouse or a squirrel; but this caterpillar was dead and apparently partly eaten. So I am still inclined to think that most of them are washed out of the meadows by the freshets.
November 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I think that the river might rise so high as to wash this out of the withered grass and leaves here. Soon after I find another in a catbird's nest, nearly three feet from the ground, in a thorn, together [with] half a nestful of freshly nibbled acorn shells and a few hazelnut shells,
November 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Reposted by Geoff Wisner
I once saw a lecture where we were shown a video of 2 officers committing racist violence. Yet one of the officers was a Black woman.

The researcher’s finding were basically a 15 70 15 distribution. She told us 15% always try to do right, 15% always abuse power, 70% just follow the culture./1
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM