Living off the Land
“We have simply forgotten to take care of the truly important things – of the ground beneath our feet and ourselves.”
We have lost sight of what is vital in life: our health and ...
Ernst Paul Dörfler
Ernst Paul Dörfler, born in 1950 in Kemberg near Lutherstadt Wittenberg, holds a doctorate in ecochemistry and is a passionate ornithologist. His book "Zurück zur Natur?" (Back to Nature?) (1986) became the cult book of the East German environmental movement. He has won numerous prizes, most recently in 2010 together with Jonathan Franzen, when he was merited with the EuroNatur Award of the European Natural Heritage Foundation.In 2019, his book Nestwärme. Was wir von Vögeln lernen können was published by Hanser.
Warm Nests
Birds aren’t just ahead of us in their ability to fly. Warblers can predict natural disasters, jays have memories like twelve elephants and zebra finches can report the weather to their chicks ...
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