Animalia
A Home for Alfie
THE HOMING INSTINCT is widely shared among animals. The territory. The nest site. The song, a proclamation of home. The squabbles and the chases, a demonstration of having it, an insistence Continue reading
Essays
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Wild Swimming
NIGHTS ARE GETTING CHILLY in the Northeast and I am more often alone when I enter the water now, propelled there not by the heat but because, under water the border Continue reading
Afield
Homesick
Philosophy is really homesickness, an urge to be at home everywhere. Where, then, are we going? Always to our home. —Novalis, Fragments THE EXPLOSION WAS THE BEGINNING of the end Continue reading
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Living Downstream From Ourselves
A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World is a monthly column about the future of climate change. I LIVE DOWNSTREAM FROM MYSELF. Maybe you do too. Maybe you, like me, Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Peaches and Preservation
IN THE SUMMER OF 2021, I strapped my two small children into the car and drove twelve hundred miles through hurricane rains and clouds of wildfire ash to can peaches with Continue reading