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Why I Run: On Thoreau and the Pleasures of Not Quite Knowing Where You’re Going

Why I Run: On Thoreau and the Pleasures of Not Quite Knowing Where You’re Going

Rachel Richardson Doesn’t Need Your Directions

By Rachel Richardson | October 7, 2022

How to Dive with Octopuses from 5,000 Miles Away: An Unlikely Craft Essay

How to Dive with Octopuses from 5,000 Miles Away: An Unlikely Craft Essay

Ray Nayler Presents a Crash Course in Octopus Behavior, via YouTube

By Ray Nayler | October 4, 2022

Amitav Ghosh on the Importance of Re-Centering Stories of the Land

Amitav Ghosh on the Importance of Re-Centering Stories of the Land

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | October 3, 2022

Meet the Writers on the Baillie Gifford Prize Longlist

Meet the Writers on the Baillie Gifford Prize Longlist

Interviews with Some of Today’s Finest Writers of Nonfiction

By Literary Hub | October 1, 2022

“Let the Bees Tell You.” On the Holy Bible (For Beekeepers) of Buckfast Abbey

“Let the Bees Tell You.” On the Holy Bible (For Beekeepers) of Buckfast Abbey

Allison LaSorda Considers the Unlikely Legacy of a Benedictine Apiarist

By Allison LaSorda | September 29, 2022

What Makes Spiders So Terribly Scary to Human Beings?

What Makes Spiders So Terribly Scary to Human Beings?

Kate Summerscale on the Enduring Persistence of Arachnophobia

By Kate Summerscale | September 28, 2022

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Annie Proulx on the Lost Ecological Paradise of the English Fenlands

By Annie Proulx | September 27, 2022

J. Drew Lanham on Finding Refuge in His Backyard During the Pandemic Lockdown

By Emergence Magazine | September 26, 2022

Instinct vs. Insight: How Much Foresight Do Animals Have?

By Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, and Adam Bulley | September 22, 2022

Beyond Apocalypse: How the New Eco-Literature Points Toward Ways of Reshaping Our Consciousness

Beyond Apocalypse: How the New Eco-Literature Points Toward Ways of Reshaping Our Consciousness

Alan Rossi on the Novels That Grapple with a World in Crisis

By Alan Rossi | September 21, 2022

How the Myth of Human Exceptionalism Cut Us Off From Nature

How the Myth of Human Exceptionalism Cut Us Off From Nature

Robin Wall Kimmerer on “Species Loneliness”

By Robin Wall Kimmerer | September 21, 2022

“I hunt and fish because it helps my writing.” Some Very Specific Writing Advice from Jim Harrison

“I hunt and fish because it helps my writing.” Some Very Specific Writing Advice from Jim Harrison

From the The Search for the Genuine: Selected Nonfiction, 1970-2015

By Jim Harrison | September 12, 2022

David G. Haskell on the Beginning of Sound on Earth

David G. Haskell on the Beginning of Sound on Earth

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By Emergence Magazine | September 12, 2022

Myth Translated Into Action: A Plea for Practical Commitment to Our Planet

Myth Translated Into Action: A Plea for Practical Commitment to Our Planet

Karen Armstrong Considers Mythos, Logos, and Ritual

By Karen Armstrong | September 8, 2022

David Suzuki on the Urgency of Scientific Education in an Era of Climate Emergency

David Suzuki on the Urgency of Scientific Education in an Era of Climate Emergency

"It is clear that reason and facts alone no longer suffice to move people and society to action."

By David Suzuki | September 8, 2022

On Wildness and Communication: Exploring the Inner Lives of Animals in Fiction

On Wildness and Communication: Exploring the Inner Lives of Animals in Fiction

Talia Lakshmi Kolluri on the Inspiration Behind Her Debut Collection

By Talia Lakshmi Kolluri | September 8, 2022

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