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

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 ...

Remember, invasive species did not come along uninvited. The movement of non-native species is anthropogenic. Humans brought these plants and animals across land and sea, across borders and ecosystems ...

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 ...

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 ...

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IN “BUFFALO EDDY,” Scott Russell Sanders describes petroglyphs he finds while hiking in the hills around the Snake River in the state of Washington. These enigmatic drawings, made by native peoples as ...

LIKE ITS MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR NAMESAKE, photographer Maurice Sherif’s seventeen-pound, trilingual, quadritoned, two-volume book The American Wall: From the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico is a ...

THERE ARE MANY WAYS to foreclose the future. Here’s one: the “intergenerational” mortgage, a relatively new lending practice in the UK — and an image for our times. Described as “the debt that never ...

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 ...

Posing for the camera on the edge of the Lookout Studio. Inset: Emory Kolb, date unknown. “Portrait of Indian Man” courtesy of the Cline Library, Northern Arizona University. In a famous letter ...

“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 ...