The Greatest Nature Essay Ever

by Brian Doyle

. . .would begin with an image so startling and lovely and wondrous that you would stop. . .

Notes from a Very Small Island

by Erik Reece

One man, one tin cup, one canoe, and an exegesis on the difference between merely existing and truly being in this world.

With This Ring

by Fred Pearce

A Window

by Hank Lentfer

Connecting to the world

Ladder to the Pleiades

by Michael P. Branch

Wishing for a ladder tall enough to reach the stars...

Once Upon a Turtle Moon

by Roger Pinckney, with photographs by Jason Houston

Off the coast of South Carolina, they've got some pretty peculiar rituals surrounding the effort to save loggerheads

Summer of the Bagworm

by Justin Robertson

In which one man wages a scorched-earth campaign to defend three measly trees

Pastures of Plenty

by Matt Rasmussen

Woody Guthrie was enamored of the Columbia River dams when they were being built. What would he think of them now?

Roadkill: How to Make a Great First Impression

by Nick Neely

Roadkill etiquette

On Being Loopy

by Mark Schimmoeller

Going to Ground: Britain’s Holloways

by Robert Macfarlane

They were at one time the busiest of routes, but now they are among the wildest niches of Britain

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.