Recent article in the NYTimes about Jim Toia’s work

I liked this part about getting to know nature:

He had what he calls his “first serious interaction” with one of the creatures that would inspire his imagination in high school, at the Lawrenceville School.

“I was looking out the window and I saw this amanita muscaria,” he recalled; a mushroom. “It was a beautiful thing, and I looked it up and found out that it was poisonous. It could actually kill you with one bite. That was a miraculous moment for me.”