Gray Thunder: Listening to Elephants

by Cyril Christo
Photographs by Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson

Elephants are speaking to us. Is anyone listening?

Wayfinding

by Sherry Simpson

Like wilderness, like home.

Kana

by Chris Dombrowski
Photographs: Randy Beacham

A lyrical exploration of the wonders of nature, and a father's quest to express those to his children

From the Editors (Jan/Feb 2008)

(unsigned)

The environmental/green movement is in need of some fresh language to help establish a moral framework.

The Nature of Walls

by John Piasecki

Wherever people live, they build walls. What the walls do for them, and to them, is less apparent.

Of Blood and Bone

by Joe Wilkins

The cycle of birth and hard life and death

Serenading Belugas in the White Sea

by David Rothenberg

Photographs by Anna Koivisto

A clarinetist ventures forth to make music with the white whales of the White Sea

Land, Farmer, Community: A Sacred Trust

Photograph and text by Lisa M. Hamilton

Japanese families join with farmers in a spiritual practice whose goal is nothing short of world peace.

Window of Possibility

by Anthony Doerr

Why one particular photograph should be in every classroom in the world.

The Tortilla Cycle

by Rebecca Allen

In Guatemala, corn is the stuff of life, and tortillas....

The Consolations of Extinction

by Christopher Cokinos

Feeling responsible for saving the entire biosphere can be a real drag, but one can take comfort in those who've come and gone before.

Identity’s Edge

by Andrea Jones

There should be more than this flimsy dermal bubble separating the vastness of the cosmos from the throb of blood and consciousness that is you.

Beyond Hope

by Derrick Jensen

Hope is the antithesis of action. Hope expects that someone else will do the hard work of change, that things will just...get better.

Learning to Surf

by David Gessner

David Gessner's artful essay on what pelicans have to teach him about trying something new has won the 2006 John Burroughs Essay Award.

What Fundamentalists Need for Their Salvation

by David James Duncan

Challenging the Right on the fundamentals of Christian stewardship.

In Weather Like This

by Roger Pinckney

Believe what you want to believe. Science will catch up sooner or later.

Language Garden

by Susanne Antonetta

An orangutan with attitude meets a writer with a weakness for Shakespeare.

Chronicles of Ice

by Gretel Ehrlich

As it falls apart, the Perito Moreno glacier surges, crumbles, and growls its protest to human indifference and global warming.

Harbinger of Hope

by Marion Gilliam

Small Wonder

by Barbara Kingsolver

In a time when the wells of human kindness seem to be running dry, Americans find themselves looking through the cross hairs of inhumanity -- in both directions. Barbara Kingsolver on nature, stillness, and foreign policy.

Honor

by Amy Godine

If compassion is a teddy bear, the softest sell of all, and resolution is a rocking horse, and honesty a big-eyed smiling doll, then honor is the tin ...

In the Wake of Man

directed by Kathryn Walker

The Naturalist

by Barry Lopez

In a world invested in hypermaterialism, the naturalist's imagination is needed more than ever.

The Sound of Migration

by Sandra Steingraber

A pregnant ecologist turns her gaze both inward and outward, weaving observations of her own body with those of migrating birds as she undergoes amniocentesis and ponders the meaning of transitions.

Stillness

by Scott Russell Sanders

To keep spirits barraged by our culture refreshed, we may need to spend "long spells in a wakeful hush."