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Four years ago I lost hearing in one ear while backpacking in western Montana. Despite many visits to doctors, acupuncturists, and naturopaths, the cause of the loss was never fully determined. Continue reading
Climate change raises existential questions—ones that, some argue, exist more comfortably in the realm of morality than science. So might the world’s religious traditions help us face the challenges of the Continue reading
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
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
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