Nightstand

[...]I'm known for doing primarily "_and science" studies. In a practical sense, you might say this question has been answered by Richard [Primack] and other scientists who have used Thoreau's extensive phenological records to study how climate change has affected when plants flower and leaf out or when bird and insect migrations occur. Scholars have for 25 or more years been diving into the wealth of botanic observations, charts and tables, and other data Thoreau recorded for his grand phenological calendar of Concord but did not live long enough to synthesize. Because these records had been omitted from posthumous publications, it took some time for the data to come to light. [...]scientists can go back in time to witness the great joy Thoreau experienced while satisfying his intellectual addiction to unfunded, curiosity-driven research.