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Stories & Memoir

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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.

Poison

by Gary Wockner

Memories of Malathion: A chain-smoking, speed-mad father and a wind that tasted like death.

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.

No Two Alike

by Barbara L. Baer

The strange power of a Soviet-era scientist and his ancient, vanishing fruits

In Weather Like This

by Roger Pinckney

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

A Season of Remembrance

by Terry Tempest Williams

The disappearing American Elm.

How We Wrestle Is Who We Are

by Brian Doyle

"MY SON LIAM was born ten years ago. He looked like a cucumber on steroids. He was fat and bald and round as a cucumber on steroids. He looked healthy as a horse. He wasn't. He was missing a chamber in his heart..."

Shy Affectionate SF

by Kathleen Dean Moore

Biophilia and the personals

Burying Miss Louise

by Roger Pinckney

In the Deep South, tribulation and transcendence are a way of life for some

The Squeeze

by Barbara Hurd

Caught between a rock and a hard place, a novice caver confronts life's dark places.

Seeing Shadows

by Douglas Haynes

A poem and the moon inform a citizen's reflections on his government's policies...

When Compassion Becomes Dissent

by David James Duncan

While awaiting the further annihilation of Iraq, a writer bears witness to the effects of war-making on our language -- and on our people.

On the Bosom of this Grave and Wasted Land I Will Lay My Head

by Janisse Ray

Even as the forests of her homeland are ground into woodchips and shipped across the globe, a native Georgian glimpses a wild world that once was, and dares to dream of restoration.

Blue Root Real Estate

by Roger Pinckney

Roger Pinckney ponders history and development in his home in Daufuskie Island, South Carolina.

Nuts

by John Price

When it comes to sex and reproduction, we find ourselves about as close to nature as we get.

The Naturalist

by Barry Lopez

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

Living on the Rocks

by Peter Marchand

It's time to redefine the dream home. To this man, it incorporates landscape features, recycled materials, independent water and power, and the bedrock of the human spirit.

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