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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 ...
The labor of nature has always been thought of as free. But a new economy that values natural systems is beginning to take shape.
For decades, the international conservation community has been working to establish a global ethic that could serve as a standard for environmental treaties and laws. But why have most American environmentalists never heard of the documents they've created?
Last year in Canberra, Australia, activists from around the world gathered to forge the first international network of Green parties. Look out political cynicism! The author will not be the only one convinced by the results.
Terry Tempest Williams takes a look at how the Bush-Cheney energy plan plays out in wildlands adjacent to Arches and Canyonlands National Parks.
Roger Pinckney ponders history and development in his home in Daufuskie Island, South Carolina.
When it comes to sex and reproduction, we find ourselves about as close to nature as we get.
In a world invested in hypermaterialism, the naturalist's imagination is needed more than ever.
The ice storm of 1998 left vast stretches of Ontario, New York, and New England without power for more than a month. It was a short time filled with enchantment. But the lights came back on, dispersing the wonder only visible in the shadows.
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.
In a world of people on the move, family members typically stretch out across nations and continents. Yet every so often, generations come home to the very same place.
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.
Two million people cross a national boundary every day, and with them travel food, insects, and the bacteria that cause diseases like foot and mouth. So what can we do about it?
At stake in the debate over genetically modified Bt corn is not just the monarch butterfly, but the integrity of the scientific process.
Snowy owls at JFK, coyotes in Central Park -- welcome to New York, where wildlife is returning to the city's double-edged habitat.
Caught in the same net as other victims of the post-NAFTA trade regime, the butterfly will fly free only when our country learns to honor human rights abroad and at home.
To keep spirits barraged by our culture refreshed, we may need to spend "long spells in a wakeful hush."
The monarch is beauty, delicacy, fragility, and hope; a symbol of international conservation, and a reminder to live in a way that will preserve the tiny wonders of our world.
A response to the attacks of 9/11 by Wendell Berry.
Nature, the urban, the suburban, and the rural.
The principles of neighborhood and subsistence will be disparaged by the globalists as "protectionism" - and that is exactly what it is.