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Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life

"Existential loneliness and a sense that one’s life is inconsequential, both of which are hallmarks of modern civilizations, seem to me to derive in part from our abandoning a beli...

From the Archives: Wendell Berry's ‘The One-Inch Journey’

 Editor's Note: Acclaimed essayist, novelist, and poet Wendell Berry was a native Kentuckian and a strong proponent of living in harmony with nature. This essay, which appeared in...

Wendell Berry’s life on Earth

Throughout his career, the writer and farmer found joy in a world without end.

‘A Fury of Dark Energies’

A biography of Peter Matthiessen captures his antithetical actions and character while never losing sight of his ardent attentiveness to the natural world.

A Field Guide to the Wildlife of Lake America

SISTERS OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN

In August 1993, Stevens was public defender for the courts of the North Slope Borough in Utqiagvik, Alaska, previously known as Barrow, a fishing town with a majority Inupiat popul...

A Franciscan sister journeyed to the Arctic. She found a land teeming with life.

With oil drilling threats looming in a federally protected reserve the size of South Carolina, faith leaders hope to reframe the Arctic as an ecosystem essential to life.

My Excellent Rio Grande Adventures

I’ve spent more than six decades turning to the Big River for sustenance. Will future generations be able to do the same?

The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering

"Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice."

How nature, poetry, and birds fly together to teach us about race

A poet and ornithologist discusses how birds can inspire poetry that helps teach us about race.

Greetings from a surreal expanse of sand dunes dotted with freshwater lagoons in Brazil

The pristine white sand dunes of the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park are bordered by thick jungle on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. Thousands of lagoons fill up af...

‘Look how we find joy.’ Dr. J. Drew Lanham on poetry and justice

Lanham's philosophy on justice and equality is inspired by birds and the natural world.

Islands of Green: Peru’s Fog Oases and Their Endemic Birds

By Alfredo Fernández Alfredo Fernández is a biologist and nature photographer based in Lima, Peru. A National Geographic Explorer since 2017, when his project documented Peru’s thr...

Pat Lowe spent decades describing and defending the Kimberley

  The termites had built their towers long before roads crossed the Kimberley or companies proposed industrial projects along its rivers and coasts. Their colonies worked beneath t...

The Issue with Tissue—a Boreal Love Story

Born and raised in Montreal, Michael Zelniker is a lifelong environmentalist as well as an award-winning actor and filmmaker. Then after more than 30 years of working on film, tele...

He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard Of

Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world?

David Johnson, the owl man of Umatilla

At the former Umatilla Chemical Depot in eastern Oregon, the weapons were gone, though their presence had shaped the land. Concrete bunkers stood among sagebrush and dry grass. Pro...

Donde el río nace

Para entender la calamidad que amenaza a millones de personas en todo Texas y en el norte de México, hice un viaje con mochila al hombro hacia las remotas zonas boscosas de las mon...

Wendell Berry on Solitude and the Two Great Enemies of Creative Work

"True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives."

5 Page-Turning Wilderness Thrillers and Nature Novels

I’ve spent much of my career writing and editing nonfiction articles about people who venture into untamed terrain, so I’m drawn to bold and original descriptions of wild places. B...

The Bird in You, the World in You, and the Art of Trusting Time: A Ceramics and Serpentine Raffle

One December afternoon, I arrived in Patagonia with a big blue backpack, a small bilingual edition of Pablo Neruda’s love poems, and a broken heart. (Though a heart, of course, nev...

5 books to contextualize America’s public land tempest

5 books to contextualize America’s public land tempest Zachary Whalen Sun, 08/23/2026 - 06:00 Primary Image Primary Image Caption...

Rebecca Wright Stevens on Amos Lane and Repping Alaska’s Indigenous Citizens in Court

Arraignment of Amos Lane in District Court Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska August 6, 1993  When I pushed open the heavy gray doors of the courtroom, heads turned toward me as t...

Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life Dur...

"These are the times in life — when nothing happens — but in quietness the soul expands."