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Practical Household Management Tips
Dr Abe V Rotor Living with Nature - School on Blog This is a continuing list of practical household management tips, which can be followed easily, and shared with the members of the family, friends, in...
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Pomposity of colors - Nature's tool for survival
"... you must court the butterfly and the bee without delay ... in the act of make believe."Dr Abe V Rotor Living with Nature - School on BlogButterfly plant, what a coincidence in form and structure,...
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Plants of Guimaras Island
Make Me a Song in Nature's Garden Dr Abe V RotorMake me a song, each flower a tune, each tune a melody,in the stillness of the sea in calm or laughter in its tide;make me a song among the flowers that...
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The Irreversibility of Domestication
Dr Abe V RotorPart 1: The Irreversibility of Domesticating WildlifeA pair of exotic parrots in captivityOnce domesticated, plants and animals remain under the custody of man, modifying them, pampering...
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The Plus Factors of Life. Yes, you will live long.
Dr Abe V Rotor Living with Nature - School on BlogThe Pond - A Place of Happy Thoughts, in acrylic AVRotorWhen the sun rises, be there and catch its rays, pristine, golden piercing the fog and mist,...
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I Brought Nature Home
Dr Abe V RotorLiving with Nature School on BlogMy Garden Pond with wall mural by AVRotor, 2010 QC.I'm with Nature reading the morning paper,whatever news it brings for the day;I'm with Nature with...
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Plant physiology: Wonder how water reaches the top of trees.
In memory of my professor and thesis adviser, Dr Fernando de PeraltaDr Abe V RotorArticle inspired by a scientific study - The theory of the rise of sap in trees : some historical and conceptual...
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Wildlife Friendly (Article in Progress)
Dr Abe V RotorAuthor's wife Cecille and daughter Anna at Safari World, Bangkok, Thailand c. 2010They come not just for food but company;love birds by their name a great story;would humans too, care...
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Queer Looking Trees from Another World
Photos and Poem by Dr Abe V RotorLiving with Nature School on BlogBalete (Ficus benjamina) strangles own host (acacia - Samanea saman), hence called Strangler's Fig, UST ManilaI love trees friendly or...
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Faith and the Little Pine
Dr Abe V RotorLiving with Nature School on BlogSeedling of Benguet Pine (Pinus insularis), Mt Saint Paul, La Trinidad, Benguet
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Millipedes in Courtship
Dr Abe V RotorMillipedes are among the most primitive creatures on earth, older than the dinosaur. It belongs to the largest phylum - Arthropoda. Scientists estimate that out of ten animal organisms,...
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Pristine environment is key to happy life especially to those with Infirmities
Dr Abe V Rotor“Good bye,” said the fox to the Little Prince, “And here is my secret.”“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”(The Little Prince,...
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The Art of Ending a Novel: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The old man caught a big fish, bigger than any fish he had ever caught. To him it was his greatest personal triumph. Hemingway skillfully ended the novel in a realm of human consciousness. Dr Abe V...
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Model Short Story: THE BET by Anton Chekhov
The singer and his song, the writer and his story. The creator and his work are inseparable in classic works. Anton Chekhov and his short stories and plays are among the world's literary masterpieces....
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Our lives are being outrun by Science and Technology
In meditative observance of the 73rd anniversary of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan Dr Abe V RotorLeft: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Right: Atomic bombing of...
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Relevance of Museums Today
Dr Abe V Rotor Burning of St Paul building WWII, mural by AVRotorSeven Sisters, sculpture by Julie Lluch, detailLife size icons at Museum's entrance greet visitor.Porcupine, endangered indigenous...
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William Tell with his son, Legendary hero of Switzerland Part 1: Test on...
Dr Abe V RotorIdentify the following important characters in Mythology.1. Greek God with two faces.2. Equivalence of Adam and Eve sa mga Pilipino.3. Of all Philippine epics, which one is the most...
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Pet Therapy
Dr Abe V. RotorLiving wih Nature School on BlogMore than the pleasant company they give, and sometimes the risk they take in giving us security, pets share our pain. They even get sick when we do. Our...
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Where have all the native fruits gone?
Dr Abe V RotorBlack sapote (Diospyrus nigra)Siniguelas (Spondias purpurea) Native guava (Psidium guajava), sampalok (Tamarindus indica)Where have all the native guava gone,the bats and birds and the...
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Salt, Leaves of Madre de Cacao hasten ripening of fruits
Dr Abe V RotorStill the best fruit is one that ripens naturally.Don' t harvest immature fruits.It is true.Not only that sodium chloride hastens ripening. It seals the base of the peduncle (fruit stem)...
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