The publication of Charles Darwin’s book On the Origin of Species in 1859 helped launch the modern science of evolution. It also created a firestorm of controversy, by suggesting that…
Category: Nature and the environment
“Only God can make a tree.” But Joyce Kilmer’s poem inspired many people to plant and preserve them…
On a chilly winter afternoon in 1913, at his home in New Jersey, poet Joyce Kilmer jotted down the first two lines of a new poem in his notebook, along…