Lanting

Among the participants: dinosaur hunter Paul Sereno, photographer Frans Lanting, environmental activist Majora Carter (a MacArthur Foundation winner), oceanographer Dave Gallo and futurist/hacker Pablos Holman.

Ideas Calendar: Oct. 9-15 2010

“My challenge,” Lanting writes, “was to untangle nature from its entwinements in the present and represent the strands separately and chronologically.”

The Eco-Man's Library: Photo and Large Format Spangler, Adam 2008

Lanting, director at Gentex for 25 years, unloaded 40,000 shares on May 23.

Prices Falling, Insiders Selling 2006

Gentex tells us the 40,000 shares Lanting sold in May was for estate planning purposes.

Prices Falling, Insiders Selling 2006

Because of his agility, his forest sense, and his affinity for the animals, Lanting began calling him by a nickname: Babakoto.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Lanting too recognized that Bedo was bright, and that his extraordinary love of the natural world was an important resource in a country so troubled and precious as Madagascar.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

About the same time, Bedo met a world-class nature photographer named Frans Lanting, who had come to Madagascar on assignment for National Geographic.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Bedo would never be a scholar, he lacked the disposition for long years of training as a scientist, but he might make a wonderful educator, Lanting thought.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Although Lanting is a conscientious man with his own passionate devotion to untrammeled nature, even he found a small bit of trammeling to be professionally necessary.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Pat Wright and Frans Lanting and David Meyers share with me what they know—or, more accurately, what they have heard.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004