Unnatural Histories

Exploring the peculiar, delightful, sometimes sordid, but always entangled histories of nature and culture. Click on an image for the story behind it.

Twenty rings of stone walls with an abstract plant at the center. Background: a volcano seeps lava and pink smoke.
Twenty-three colorful snakes slither across a black road from one forest to another. A big pink sun in the sky.
An image of a cat wearing cat head pajamas and the text, you're the cat's pajamas
A collage of the daisugi growing technique whereby many thin pine tree trunks grow from a larger base trunk
An Asian elephant bathes in a turquois pond. Single-story stone/concrete housing can be seen behind three trees and a stone wall. An Asian elephant bathes in a turquois pond. Single-story stone/concrete housing can be seen behind three trees and a stone wall. Turn on screen reader support To enable screen reader support, press Ctrl+Alt+Z To learn about keyboard shortcuts, press Ctrl+slash
A collage of an oval terrarium filled with different textured plants
Image:Ten small pioneers stand at the base of a large geyser plume gazing up at the laundry shot up by the eruption.
A group of construction workers build a mother grey whale and calf at the foot of some trees and an old building.
Foreground: a pelican dives into a dark choppy sea. Background: a white mountain of guano with birds and a red sun.
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