One Good Turn
The morning of October 11, 2016, was chilly on the northern plains. Low sun glinted on prairie grasses and on the emergency turn-off valves of the five pipelines that burrowed from Continue reading
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Brenda Peterson Reads “Wolf Music”
Did you know that when wolves howl, they harmonize with one another? Or that if a human imitates a howl, nearby wolves will modulate their voices and chime in? Listen to Continue reading
Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Language of Animacy
In the English language, we reserve the pronouns of personhood for humans—”he,” “she,” “they”—and not for animals, plants, and landscapes. Yet in many of America’s indigenous languages, such barriers are dissolved, Continue reading
A Drive Through Ireland’s Nephin Beg
The photographs accompanying Jeremy Miller’s “Two Kinds of Wilderness” (published in the March/April 2017 issue of Orion) are drawn from Niamh O’Malley’s Nephin, a silent fine-art film made in 2014 and shot Continue reading
The Sound of 6 Million Acres
The acoustic ecology of a national park. Continue reading