When I forage with my children, I sink into the delights of radiant mornings—the splendor of trees laden with fruit, my girls ...

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, Julian Hoffman and his wife, Julia, decided to pack up their busy London lives and move to a place ...

Julian Brave Noisecat is a writer, filmmaker, powwow dancer, student of Salish art and history, and author of We Survived the ...

THE MUSHROOM BURIAL SHROUD that covered Luke Perry’s face and famous forehead was black as night, or perhaps it was white as bone, made of organic cotton, and inlaid with white crochet tubes that ...

AFTER A MOONLESS NIGHT, black as Raven’s feathers, dawn breaks on the great wild open of southern Utah. I’m about thirty miles from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, standing on a slab of ...

HE IS HUNCHED DOWN feeding on the carcass of a newly dead bison by the northeast shore of Yellowstone Lake. He eats methodically, gratefully, his muzzle smeared with blood, his forearms and ruff ...

Charlotte Taylor Fryar is the author of Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation’s River, an essay collection on the natural history and racial history of Washington DC’s waterways. With a PhD in ...

Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned poet, performer, writer, and member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She served as ...

"How should the mind that can contemplate God relate to our fellow beings, the other life-forms of the world? What is our human responsibility?" ...

IN THE FALL OF 1941, as the Nazis invaded Russia, choking trade routes into Leningrad and starving the city’s population, a group of botanists decided to not allow the world to end. They were ...

LAKE SUPERIOR ON A CALM DAY has a depth clarity of over a hundred feet. In shallow waters, boulders appear to be just below the surface. Near shore, trash creates a timeline of occupation: plates, ...