Ugly Nature: The Hidden Joys of Bugs, Bats, Weeds, and Vacant Lots with Charles Hood and Woodside Arts & Culture
September 3, 2021 | 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Nature is more than Yosemite and pretty flowers – it even happens after dark and in ditches and vacant lots. Poet and naturalist Charles Hood will take us on a journey that will encourage us to expand our definitions of nature, and will show how even small moments can provide intense joy.
The author of 16 books and field guides, Charles has studied nature from the South Pole to the Amazon, and from the Atacama Desert to Tibet. This event will be part slide lecture, part conversation, and audience participation will be encouraged.
Audience is limited, so please register early!
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Charles Hood
Poet and essayist Charles Hood has been a factory worker, a ski instructor, and a birding guide in Africa. His recent books published by Heyday include Nocturnalia, an appreciation of nature after dark, and the essay collection A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature. His wildlife studies have taken him around the world, from the high Arctic to the South Pole, and from Tibet to West Africa to the Amazon. Mammal no. 1,000 seen and recorded on his world animal list was a Crossley's dwarf lemur in Madagascar. (Mammal no. 999 was a Malagasy white-bellied free-tailed bat.) Recently retired and now professor emeritus, Hood lives in the Mojave Desert with two kayaks, two mountain bikes, two dogs, and five thousand books.
