Unnatural Histories

Exploring the peculiar, delightful, sometimes sordid, but always entangled histories of nature and culture.

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
Purple hands dig into black soil with potatoes, roots and colorful starfish.
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
Image:Ten small pioneers stand at the base of a large geyser plume gazing up at the laundry shot up by the eruption.
Foreground: a pelican dives into a dark choppy sea. Background: a white mountain of guano with birds and a red sun.
A collage of an oval terrarium filled with different textured plants