The devotional art of Jainism, Buddhism and Hinduism share many similarities, even some gods. To understand why, you need to examine the ancient Indian origins of these religions and their ...

Nature is an ever-present force—inevitable and deeply influential. It leaves its mark on everything it touches like those who ...

Before the invention of the microscope and the field of entomology emerged, Joris Hoefnagel devoted himself to the natural world.

Haiku written by local children as part of the Rain Poetry project by nonprofit PA Humanities will soon be displayed on ...

In her poetry collection Phir Ugna, which she has been selected for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2025, she weaves water, forests and mountains into her verses.

To celebrate National Poetry Month in April, we invited 5 Washington Post photographers to capture nature, and invited 5 poets to respond with original poems.

In a superb companion to Lewis’s 2012 animal-themed collection, poems from writers both classic (Dickinson, Millay, Yeats) and contemporary (Grimes, Sidman, Yolen) pair with breathtaking nature ...

Combining poems and watercolor paintings of various local flora, Beeman created “A Whidbey Botanical,” a new chapbook out this month. Historically, chapbooks were small pamphlets containing tales or ...

Nature drawing coloring activity for kids to explore creativity ...

Steve Soto pens a poem exploring variations of human nature.