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Writing Nature: The Healing Connection of Space and Spirit

Writing Nature: The Healing Connection of Space and Spirit

Bridget Crocker on the Importance of Listening to the Voice of the Natural World

By Bridget Crocker | June 6, 2025

The World is Alive; or, How Robert Macfarlane Came to Trust His Senses

The World is Alive; or, How Robert Macfarlane Came to Trust His Senses

Daegan Miller on the Beloved Nature Writer’s Latest Work

By Daegan Miller | June 5, 2025

Robert Macfarlane on the Beauty and Urgency of Nan Shepherd’s <em>The Living Mountain</em>

Robert Macfarlane on the Beauty and Urgency of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain

In Praise of the Scottish Author’s Poetic, Universalist Parochialism

By Robert Macfarlane | March 19, 2025

Following Flaco the Owl: In Praise of Writing Into Our Obsessions

Following Flaco the Owl: In Praise of Writing Into Our Obsessions

David Gessner: “If we are very lucky, we find that the thing we have picked up is hitched to everything else in the universe.”

By David Gessner | February 10, 2025

Forest, Forest Burning Bright: On Humans’ Relationship with Trees in an Era of Climate Change

Forest, Forest Burning Bright: On Humans’ Relationship with Trees in an Era of Climate Change

Lauren E. Oakes Examines the Global Disequilibrium We’ve Created

By Lauren E. Oakes | January 6, 2025

Encounters with the Local Possum; Or, How Safety Can Hide Wonder from Us

Encounters with the Local Possum; Or, How Safety Can Hide Wonder from Us

Jarod K. Anderson Rediscovers Awe

By Jarod K. Anderson | September 30, 2024

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How a Multitude of Voices Can Broaden Our Understanding of the Natural World

By Rebecca Kormos | May 2, 2024

What Do You Get When You Cross the Contemporary Novel with Nature Writing?

By Fiona Williams | April 10, 2024

Walden, Freestyled: Reimagining and Reclaiming What It Means to Be Black in Nature

Walden, Freestyled: Reimagining and Reclaiming What It Means to Be Black in Nature

Edward Moreta Jr. on White Western Nature Writing, JID's 29 (Freestyle), and Longing for Black Representation in Wild Settings

By Edward Moreta Jr. | December 4, 2023

A Cartogropher’s Glorious Paean to the Landscape of Connemara

A Cartogropher’s Glorious Paean to the Landscape of Connemara

Tim Robinson on the Lore of Sea and Shore in Ireland

By Tim Robinson | November 17, 2023

How Jonathan Raban's <em>Passage to Juneau</em> Decolonizes Nature Writing

How Jonathan Raban's Passage to Juneau Decolonizes Nature Writing

Robert MacFarlane on Indigenous Pantheons, the Western Notion of the Sublime, and Raban's Disruptive Language

By Robert Macfarlane | September 11, 2023

Reading Robert McCloskey’s Maine Trilogy as an Antidote to Climate Change Despair

Reading Robert McCloskey’s Maine Trilogy as an Antidote to Climate Change Despair

“I once again reach for these stories, and remember that we exist in a chain of forces that must be—and can be—respected.”

By Ethan Warren | August 16, 2023

Do Octopuses Dream of Elusive Crabs?

Do Octopuses Dream of Elusive Crabs?

David Scheel on the Sleep Patterns of Cephalopods

By David Scheel | July 24, 2023

Why Learning About Other Animals Makes Us Better Writers

Why Learning About Other Animals Makes Us Better Writers

Gina Chung on How Bats, Octopuses, and Other Animals Helped Her Better Understand Humanity

By Gina Chung | March 28, 2023

More To Be Shaped By: Searching for Black Nature Writing

More To Be Shaped By: Searching for Black Nature Writing

Erin Sharkey on Decolonizing the Wild Experience

By Erin Sharkey | March 22, 2023

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