The Earth is a living organism with soil, sea, air, life, sunlight and others all interacting in a way that makes us wholly dependent on natural systems for survival.
Similarly, we may observe birds in the air and draw conclusions that, although there are similarities in skeletal plans of birds and fishes due to the similar selection pressures of fluid environments, air life, with its own set of selection pressures, requires different answers – adaptations – to "nature questions" from those that sea life does.
Of his off-air life, one broadcasting colleague said that he was "exactly like you heard him on radio every day, only worse".
Chang's tone is gently ironic toward Charles's financial collapse, as she enjoys chronicling the absurd excesses of the privileged Bel-Air life he must relinquish, or the high-end art world Saina used to inhabit.
Still, as the city's wealthy pack up for the Hamptons, or prepare to send their own children to Vermont or Maine to enjoy the open-air life, it is worth remembering what the loss of those summer programs says about the obligations and responsibilities of citizens toward each other.
White's experiment did not explain exactly why this drop-off in performance occurred — "Neglect for three months may blur the memory; but three months of open-air life may give an increased vitality that quickens the memory" — but it confirmed what he had intuited.
"Three months of open-air life" may still be the summer lot of some very rich or very rural American children; two and a half or three months of highly regulated day camp or largely unregulated screen time is more likely the case today.
A boat has great convenience for carrying baggage, and the banks of a river not only afford the greatest facilities for that frequent bathing which is a necessity of open-air life in summer, but also give the best promise of seclusion for the camp.
"I said good night to the audience and the next thing I knew, Brando leaned over and kissed me right on the lips," King writes in "Anything Goes!," his new memoir of on-air life in the 1990's, written with Pat Piper.
Here's a description of one fascist landowner, Gerard Wallop, as seen by the physicist Freeman Dyson while a schoolboy working the harvest during the war: "The fat young man [Wallop] owned the land... and he came and lectured us about blood and soil and the mystical virtues of the open-air life.
Once Attenborough's tie-in documentary series aired, Life Story sold over 11,000 copies in a month, while Tom Kerridge's recipe book peaked at 10,015 copies sold the week of Black Friday, since selling 58,000 just in December.
