- All's Well That Ends Well
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When the biologist’s husband was alive, they lived in a city together, and she would often go out late at night to an empty lot—lying to him about where she was going. First, the empty lot—much like the neglected swimming pool where the biologist used to observe aquatic organisms as a child—demonstrates nature’s power to reclaim territory that has been decimated by human beings. Calling it her patch of “urban wilderness” is a kind of oxymoron that suggests nature can find a way to persist, no matter the environment.
But more than illustrating nature’s persistence, the story also demonstrates the…