Waiting at Advent -- Counting at Christmas -- Wild ice -- Christmas hockey -- Morning star -- Geese on the ice -- Passing the salt -- Winter geography -- Lengthening -- Owl invasion -- What are animals for? -- Ever living fire -- Winged wonder -- The rites of spring -- The nest box war -- Conspiracy -- Illumined courtship -- The Bullhead Queen -- Skiing at Flamin' Feet -- The green season -- Rowing the mutant canoe -- Ordinary time -- Nighthawk day -- Via Dolorosa -- Saints at work, saints at rest -- Everyone a king
Summary
The Western approach to nature has always operated under both spiritual and scientific views. While Christianity decrees that human beings have dominion over nature, evolutionary biology teaches us that we are but highly adapted animals among a biological network of millions of other species. What is our proper relationship to wild animals--and what is our responsibility to them? In The Bullhead Queen, Sue Leaf exemplifies the moral aspect of humans to nature through a collection of engaging meditations on the places she sees every day on Pioneer Lake in east-central Minnesota
