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5 Things I Learned Walking Across Arizona
Author Tom Zoellner hiked the length of the 790-mile Arizona Trail to get to know his home state a little better. He ended up learning some unexpected lessons along the way. Continue reading
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My Mother’s Transplants
I COULD TELL SOMETHING WAS WRONG by the tone of my mother’s voice on the phone. So I jumped into my car and drove eastward, toward Blackstone Avenue—Fresno’s commercial meridian—into Pinedale, Continue reading
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The Angry Drunk
A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World is a monthly column about the future of climate change. I WAKE IN A FOG AT MY mother-in-law’s house in northern New Continue reading
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6 Words I’m Trying Not to Use to Describe Land
Primeval Something about the land, usually a forest—giant trees dripping with moss, crusted with lichen, a tangled understory dense with growth—conjures the word primeval. But I have learned this is inaccurate. Continue reading
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A Walk in the Deep Forest with Jane Goodall
ON THE EVENING OF THE ARRIVAL OF Jane Goodall, footsore and weary after a long day’s slog, and accompanied by Fay and a handful of others (including photographer Nick Nichols and Continue reading