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Once noble and redemptive, environmentalism has devolved into an engine of consumerism and a platform for partisanship.
The brown trouts, Sno Balls, and stray cats lent a faux nature vibe to this home-away-from-home.
Looking into the eyes of pebbles, in search of some immutable truth.
When the boundaries between predator and prey, wild and tame, black and white, become blurred.
"It is good to return to a familiar place and find something sowed with a generous hand."
A good walk is a conversation between the walker and the environment, and here we present five "walk" pieces in translation, fiction and nonfiction, by Tomas Espedal, Manik Datar, Homero Aridjis, Sait Faik Abasıyanık, and Yuri Rytkheu, published in collaboration with the online magazine for international literature Words without Borders.
Growing up in eastern Montana makes you hard -- and not necessarily in a good way.
Childhood memories withstand the test of time, but a fragile species may be another story.
A retired cop wanders the canyons of Arizona looking for redemption. Plus AUDIO of the author reading this article.
A story of flight and forgetting, punctuated by a flock of goats.
EXCERPT
A familiar journey can be anything but, if you pay it the proper attention.
A trip through the looking glass at a Tennessee tourist attraction.
. . .would begin with an image so startling and lovely and wondrous that you would stop. . .
One man, one tin cup, one canoe, and an exegesis on the difference between merely existing and truly being in this world.
Off the coast of South Carolina, they've got some pretty peculiar rituals surrounding the effort to save loggerheads
In which one man wages a scorched-earth campaign to defend three measly trees
Woody Guthrie was enamored of the Columbia River dams when they were being built. What would he think of them now?