In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane.

FIVE THOUSAND YEARS AGO, a wounded man fled into the mountains. With an arrowhead embedded deep in his left shoulder, he stumbled into a valley. The somber peaks of Finailspitze and Similaun glared ...

ON A BRISK EVENING IN SEPTEMBER, Krista Tippett, host of On Being, gathered with authors and environmental thinkers Robin Wall Kimmerer and Azita Ardakani in a quiet corner of the New York Public ...

EVERYTHING HAS A NATURAL RHYTHM: trees swaying, grass blowing, birds singing. As a dancer, you learn to pay attention to these rhythms, in the world and in your body, and find movements that feel ...

"Dusk is growing over the vast stretch of land / with not a light of any human habitation visible." ...

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“THE LIFE OF A MOUNTAINEER,” writes John Muir, “seems to be particularly favorable to the development of soul-life, as well as limb-life, each receiving abundance of exercise and abundance of food.” ...

MATHEMATICS AND ART-MAKING are both symbolic systems, methods for understanding, describing, interpreting, or re-presenting the world. Our images feature common objects usually seen as natural — ...

LET US CONSIDER the death of a river. You’ve probably never heard of it. It’s just a little Mexican waterway running past San Miguel de Allende with its movie stars and American expats. It’s a ...

“I THANK YOU GOD for most this amazing / day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees / and a blue true dream of sky.” It’s hard to imagine a purer statement of gratefulness for the natural world than ...

WHEN WE THINK ABOUT why we strive to preserve nature, many of us begin by framing our answers in terms of security and wellbeing — because pollution compromises our health, because extinction ...

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