While we the living, not sleeping, move through days of snow and cloud, rain and fog, the willow stems lie dormant, perhaps dreaming, or perhaps only sleeping. Listening to the rill of the river ...

On the ground, my encounters with the habituated mother bear of yearling cubs were becoming increasingly tense. We were both ...

As I look back on a topsy-turvy 2025, while testing out my new year’s mantra – radical optimism – I’m grateful for the chance to share with you, our community, some personal thoughts and exciting ...

THE FIRST THINGS I SEE are the tails of the planes. They jut like hundreds of dorsal fins rising from prehistoric fish that have been lined up by a butcher on a massive table of thin brown grass. It ...

ON THE FISHCAMP SPIT of Nuvurak, in 1974, Bob Uhl taught me how to make rice. “Four cups of water.” He paused and thought for moment. “One cup of rice.” He was wearing hip boots, stacking salmon net ...

TERESA AVIÑA won’t open the windows or door of her small apartment, despite a heat that plagues the soul. On the kitchen table, beside two jugs of bottled water, a small, green, electric fan pushes ...

I HAVE COME to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time. And I think you should, too. Saying so represents ...

Curtis White’s book (less than $12 in paper via Amazon) The Barbaric Heart: Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature has just been published. Parts were in Orion ...

Author Cormac Cullinan reads his provocative essay “If Nature Had Rights” in which he imagines what nature might gain, and what people might “lose” if nature gained legal protections. The article was ...

To honor the legacy of John Burroughs, a pioneer of modern nature writing, the John Burroughs Association annually selects an Outstanding Published Nature Essay—past winners include Michael Pollan, ...