What a world, huh?

Towering waterfalls, rippling meadows, austere cliffs. The first cicadas of summer buzzing in the trees, roiling seas with waves as tall as skyscrapers, vultures circling above a decomposing carcass, spiders spinning their nightly webs, single-celled amoebas kicking their pseudopodia. A polar bear stained red after a fresh kill, a mother elephant gently lifting her fallen calf, a mass of maggots writhing in rot, an octopus changing color quick as a blink, a howling tornado churning the grey-green sky, a bumblebee trotting clumsily through a flower, a whale skeleton slowly settling onto the ocean floor, a murmuration of starlings twisting and turning a thousand strong, a pufferfish painstakingly constructing intricate patterns in the sand, a desert turned cold and pale in the moonlight, the smell of the earth after spring's first rain.

It's crazy out here.

This is a shared field journal of encounters with the natural world: moments that stirred a strong emotion--wonder, affection, curiosity, fear, unease, sadness, disgust, or something that can't be named.

The collection has room for all of them.