Welcome to Demure Owl.

I’m Morgan Conover. I’m a writer and nature enthusiast. Each week in this newsletter I’ll discuss a curious subject from the natural world, such as the physics of mountain laurel flowers, micro-animals called moss piglets that have survived the conditions of outer space, vole populations unexpectedly increasing after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, or what the continents might look like a billion years from now due to shifts in plate tectonics.

If you want to know more about me and my founding principles, read my first post:

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Demure Owl Founding Principles

Hi, I’m Morgan Conover. I enjoy being in nature and writing about it. I started Demure Owl in January 2022 to tell stories from the natural world and to record my thoughts and observations about plants, animals, fungi, rocks, and other non-person beings and our culture’s relationships to them…

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2 years ago · Morgan Conover

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