Bring home Letters to Boulders today. Adapted from Letters to Boulders: Stone Prose, copyright © 2025 by Karen Donovan, used ...

AFEW YEARS AGO, while living on the Diné Nation, I first heard a striking proclamation that rang through the community with profound urgency: “Tó éí íín´á!”—“water is life.” I saw these words in bold ...

Our autumn 2025 issue continues Orion’s longstanding tradition of exploring environments of all kinds, be they built, natural, social, or otherwise. In these pages, we turn our ears to the sonic ...

ONCE, WHEN I WAS teaching The Great Gatsby at Princeton, a student asked where Daisy’s money—her Kentucky family’s inherited wealth—came from. We were talking about Gatsby’s description of Daisy—that ...

Knowledge is not acquisition, not my acquisition, not my redemption, but redemption of the other. Knowledge is love. The loving gaze, knowledge guided by love, redeems the flower from its lack of ...

EARLY IN 2004, a buoy was released into the waters off Argentina. Half of the buoy was dark and the other light, like a planet in relief. The buoy sailed east, accompanied by the vastness of the ocean ...

A CEMETERY SEEMED AN ODD PLACE to contemplate the boundaries of being. Sandwiched between the campus and the interstate, this old burial ground is our cherished slice of nearby nature where the long ...

WE LIVE IN AN AGE of technology indistinguishable from magic, especially in the realm of thinking machines. Among other tasks, you can ask ChatGPT, one of the world’s most advanced deep-learning ...

Jennifer Sahn: It’s sort of an obvious starting place, but I think it makes sense to begin by asking how you define rewilding. George Monbiot: Actually, there are two definitions of rewilding that ...

RICK HANEY, GANGLY AND GARRULOUS, paces in front of a congregation of government conservationists, working the room for laughs before he gets to the hard data. The U.S. Department of Agriculture soil ...

IN SEPTEMBER 2011, I stood on a river overlook with children from my daughter’s elementary school, all of us transfixed by a giant jackhammer pounding cement to rubble. Below us, a waterfall raged ...