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and found a universe of life.

THE DRY COUNTRY IS fond of yellow as its accent color. The landscape primarily clothes itself in tones of earthy strata and the soft neutrals of grassland, but yellow is always part of the ensemble, ...

When we write about landscapes we know well and inhabit, it is easy to stop truly seeing and fall into habits surrounding language, image, and form. When this happens, poets need to find ways to ...

The genre of environmental writing has been expanding in recent years.

Many of us have enjoyed long journeys (expeditions, treks) that involve radical changes of setting and habit. Much excellent writing has come out of this type of movement (think Robert Macfarlane, ...

Meditations on time and rebellion against the straight line ...

FRESH OUT OF COLLEGE and into the Great Recession, I abandoned my studies to chase a childhood dream: to join the pantheon of dolphin and whale trainers anywhere I could be near captive cetaceans.

“WHAT THE THIEF STOLE will always be expensive,” says Tāmati Kruger. He faces a large window in his tribe’s local marae, a community meeting house, as he speaks. His words are matter-of-fact. They ...

LAKE SUPERIOR ON A CALM DAY has a depth clarity of over a hundred feet. In shallow waters, boulders appear to be just below the surface. Near shore, trash creates a timeline of occupation: plates, ...

In May 1996, Julie Williams and Lollie Winans were brutally murdered while backpacking in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park, just off the Appalachian Trail. Twenty years later, journalist Kathryn ...

A PHOTO OF A REDWOOD’S muscular, six-hundred-year-old base. To the left a fun-sized woman, in the Bay Area only briefly and wanting to make the most of it, trying to hug the tree’s ancient girth. She ...