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Nature is not an escape
To understand this, I had to stop reading John Muir and turn to the nature writing of the Harlem Renaissance.
The mirror world under the sea
Millions of unknown species in our oceans inhabit a universe of storytelling and dreaming.
by Jeffrey Johnson
The vocation of Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau's beautiful writing, biographer Laura Dassow Walls shows, is scripture waiting to be heard.
by Henry L. Carrigan Jr.
Poetry grounded in place
Paul Willis's poems reveals epiphanies in the midst of everyday life.
by Marjorie Maddox
Why we need Mary Oliver’s poems
When arguments fail us, we turn to words of wonder.
by Debra Dean Murphy
This spring, I didn't find any morels in the woods around my house. But I did find a lot of other things.
by Terra Brockman
Barbara Crooker enters the shades and brush strokes of daily life with such reverence that readers want to take notice, live better, and die better.
reviewed by Tania Runyan
Terry Tempest Williams is a writer of stunning power. She is also a writer who spends pages mistaking journal entries for literature.
reviewed by Brian Doyle