Fiction
The Footprint’s Story
ONCE THERE WAS A PRINCE in want of a wife. The prince met a lady with gold hair, and he kissed her in front of video cameras. He took her to Continue reading
Ecology
Feature
Gooseberry Marsh
From the Orion archives: this piece was featured in Orion’s Winter 1996 issue. THIS FALL ON GOOSEBERRY MARSH the weather is warm and the water is high. As Craig and I load Continue reading
Feature
What Seed-Saving Can Teach Us About the End of the World
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 Continue reading
Feature
Future Air
A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World is a monthly column about the future of climate change. MY DAUGHTER HADLEY is nineteen years old. I am sixty-one. (Yikes.) Continue reading
Poetry
The Elephant and The Tragopan
In Bingle Valley, broad and green, Where neither hut nor field is seen, Where bamboo, like a distant lawn, Is gold at dusk and flushed at dawn, Where rhododendron forests crown Continue reading