Bring home Letters to Boulders today. Adapted from Letters to Boulders: Stone Prose, copyright © 2025 by Karen Donovan, used ...

Our autumn 2025 issue continues Orion’s longstanding tradition of exploring environments of all kinds, be they built, natural, social, or otherwise. In these pages, we turn our ears to the sonic ...

as so. before him, there were two, girls, nameless. my grandmother walked to iraq with them, pilgrimage. one died on the way there. one died on the way back. buried on the way, in land where borders ...

ONCE, WHEN I WAS teaching The Great Gatsby at Princeton, a student asked where Daisy’s money—her Kentucky family’s inherited wealth—came from. We were talking about Gatsby’s description of Daisy—that ...

DEEP IN THE FORESTS of the southern coastal plains are places where trees rise up straight out of the ground, sometimes one hundred feet, their branches splayed all near the crown in a wide, high ...

AFEW YEARS AGO, while living on the Diné Nation, I first heard a striking proclamation that rang through the community with profound urgency: “Tó éí íín´á!”—“water is life.” I saw these words in bold ...

IT’S SPRING WHEN I REALIZE that I may never have children, and around that time the thirteen-year cicadas return, burrowing out of neat, round holes in the ground to shed their larval shells, sprout ...

RICK HANEY, GANGLY AND GARRULOUS, paces in front of a congregation of government conservationists, working the room for laughs before he gets to the hard data. The U.S. Department of Agriculture soil ...

I ONCE THOUGHT I KNEW what nature writing was: the pretty, sublime stuff minus the parking lot. The mountain majesty and the soaring eagle and the ancient forest without the human footprint, the ...

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, ...

WE LIVE IN AN AGE of technology indistinguishable from magic, especially in the realm of thinking machines. Among other tasks, you can ask ChatGPT, one of the world’s most advanced deep-learning ...