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Magpie Song

by Robert Michael Pyle

Beauty and wonder are always in the eye of the beholder—but the beholder has to choose to behold

Wayfinding

by Sherry Simpson

Like wilderness, like home.

Agent Orange: A Chapter from History That Just Won’t End

by Ben Quick

The lethality of the fog that settled on South Vietnam, like so many war costs, would remain hidden.

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

Of Blood and Bone

by Joe Wilkins

The cycle of birth and hard life and death

Activism’s Paradox Mountain

by Rick Bass

An activist pauses to consider the contradictions of a life bent on saving that which we are also apt to consume.

Seeing Deer

by Craig Childs

They come down into the valleys in autumn, where chance meetings will seal their fates.

Gathering Berries

by Aleria Jensen

Gratitude in the muskeg

Losing Home

by Melissa Holbrook Pierson

Place is physical before it is emotional, which is why losing one feels like a punch in the gut.

He Sets Me in the Stream

by David James Duncan

Way down below the sawmills and churches and baseball diamonds there's a watery place called The Wind.

Spoon Mountain or Bust

by John Nichols

A delusional quest to reverse ten thousand years of disharmony with nature

Book Tourist

by Robert Michael Pyle

An author with an offering ventures out into the world of readers.

The Tortilla Cycle

by Rebecca Allen

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

Being on the Land

Photographs and text by Robert Semeniuk

By going out on the land, the Inuit enact archetypal connections that are more universal than they appear.

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.

Evolving, Swiftly

by Robert Michael Pyle

Animals can adapt to modified habitats, but can humans adapt to save both the animals and themselves?

Bigger Fish to Fry

by Lou Bendrick

Is there something wrong, or odd, about NOAA, Environmental Defense, and other agencies using Disney's Ariel as a clean-up-the-oceans mascot?

Snapshots of My Redneck Brother

by BK Loren

After twenty years, he brings it all back: Marlboros, motorcycles, and other things best left unmentioned.

A Day of Discovery

by Richard Preston

Slogging for hours through dense, unforgiving forest, two lost naturalists find the botanical mother lode: the largest living things on earth.

Whitefoot

by Wendell Berry

In a parable for our time, spring floods launch a small creature on a great adventure.

The Territory of Tint

by Robert Michael Pyle

What constitutes a Kodak moment may range widely among humans, even wider among Fidos and fritillaries.

The Bare Boughs of Winter Trees

by Roger Pinckney

A deathbed vigil, an unrepentant patriot, and a nuclear madness call forth questions of faith.

Tracking Tar

by William L. Fox

Beneath the streets of L.A., geology is dramatic, and more nuanced than Hollywood's most dazzling special effects make it out to be.

Sitting Pretty

by Nicole McClelland

Will true love survive a composting toilet and other unknowable but potentially devastating sacrifices?

Chores

by Debra Marquart

Growing up on a North Dakota farm, chores are always plural. But so are the joys of learning things not available to most people today.

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