Geography as Generosity: An Afternoon with Barry Lopez
EIGHTEEN MONTHS BEFORE HE CROSSED the river for the final time, Barry Lopez traveled from his home on the banks of the McKenzie to see me in Portland, Oregon, where I was Continue reading
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The Peculiar Relationship Between City Trees and Medieval Battle
TODAY, EUROPEAN CITIES ARE unthinkable without their tree-lined streets: their boulevards, avenues and malls. Those three words synonymous with urban trees tell us when and why European cities got their canopies. Continue reading
Science, Art, and Literature Meet in Cascadia Field Guide
YOU’RE SPEEDING ALONG A CITY HIGHWAY and catch a glimpse of distinctive, bushy green in a ravine. Sword Fern, your quick mind says, moving on to the grocery list or that Continue reading
An Archive of Black Memory
JOIN US IN CELEBRATING THE IMPORTANT new essay collection, A Darker Wilderness edited by Erin Sharkey, and all its imaginative, vexing, joyful, and heartbreaking reflections about the explorations of Black Americans Continue reading
How Trees Changed the World
This excerpt is from A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization. Buch der Weisheit, Ulm, 1483 ASTRONOMERS, FOR THE LONGEST TIME, regarded Venus as the planet Continue reading