By Rahawa Haile In this essay from Outside Magazine, Rahawa Haile reflects on the experience of hiking the Appalachian trail as a queer black woman. Her essay covers questions of race and politics, as well as evocatively describing her own rich relationship to the natural world. It’s the spring of 2016, and I’m ten miles … More Going It Alone
By Annie Dillard An American author, Dillard writes in the tradition of Thoreau and other early naturalists. Her best known narrative non-fiction work, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, won the Pullitzer Prize. In this piece she performs a true “essay” — that is, a meandering exploration that pulls together disparate ideas, and invites new questions. A … More Living Like Weasels
By Dorianne Laux An American poet, Laux often looks at questions of contemporary motherhood, womanhood, work, and life. In this poem, she takes our everyday surroundings (streetlights, a leaf on the ground) and uses them to connect her reader to a feeling of transcendental wonder at the scope of the universe and our insignificance. That … More Third Rock from the Sun
By Wendell Berry Nature as a place of refuge in this beautiful poem by Wendell Berry, an American poet, essayist, and environmental activist. He was born and grew up on a farm in Kentucky, and returned to farming after studying and teaching writing. This poem, almost prayer-like, is written with simple vocabulary yet speaks to … More The Peace of Wild Things
GREEN & GROW 