Lay of the Land
A Landscape History of Brexit
Some say the sea connects us, others that it divides us. Of course, both are true. I live on the south coast of England, close to the English Channel, or, as Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Lay of the Land
Bring You Apples
WE CLIMBED the gray-slatted lookout tower as the lab bounded ahead, up stairs four at a time. Especially in autumn, after hiking the oak and beech woods of southern Indiana, my Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Protest as Practice
WHEN I FIND Warren Senders on the side of a Boston suburbs highway, he is ready to hand me a sign that reads, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IS SOCIAL JUSTICE. It’s only 7:30 Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Salmon Homecoming
TODAY, I’m watching salmon mating. On the banks of the Sandy River, the naturalist explains that I am looking at a female salmon building a nest, but all I see is Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Middle of Nowhere
THERE IS NO ROAD, hasn’t been a road since Gerlach, that crust of a town where we turned from pavement to playa, to hairline-fractured hardpan Continue reading