A biologist who wrote The Forest Unseen, a fantastic book about how Haskell stared at a spot in the forest in Tennessee everyday for a year. He discusses ferns, moss, trees, small animals, and even takes his clothes off for 5 minutes in the middle of winter.
Haskell also wrote The Songs of Trees.
Haskell received his Ph.D. in evolutionary biology at Cornell.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)