WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE that Orion Magazine has revived its connection with 1% for the Planet as an environmental partner! This partnership is intended to advance our impact as well as involve more ...

I’ve been too confident, I think, that’s the problem. I’ve jinxed us. Is my career as a primatologist destined for failure?

Jonathan Marquis is a long-term practice of place-making and radical remembrance of Montana’s glaciers and wildlands. It is ...

A conversation about graphic storytelling, wolf-watching, and community, with children’s book author Kathleen Yale ...

In the city, nature is but a walk, bike, or bus ride away. Consider the pigeon pair picking French fries off the ground who are probably mated for life, will teach their young valuable survival skills ...

ALISON: There’s a spring-fed pool here full of turtles, fish, salamanders, crawfish, plants, mosses, and birds. I swim in it as often as I can, and it’s magical. I feel such recognition with the ...

I ONCE ASKED MY CURRENT HUSBAND if it troubled him that I was writing about my late husband. “No,” he replied, “just don’t write about me.” So when I published an essay during the summer of ...

HEADING NORTH, FOLLOWING THE tang of boggy rivers and the sweetness of pines on the air, I like to imagine that I could smell my way home, like a salmon navigating to its natal stream. Closer and ...

AFTER ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF of dating, Sam and I decided he should move into my house. We had each lived with partners before, but those moves had been swayed by financial stress and global ...

THE FIRST SOUND IN the universe is joylessly underwhelming: white noise boring through the taffy-stretch of nascent space. The big bang is not a bang but a droning robotic purr, galaxies expanding ...

adrienne maree brown has been on my radar for a while. As a thinker, activist, and teacher, she provides essential insights into how we relate to both human and natural ecosystems. Our conversation ...

In this eight-week online course, we will integrate journaling, foraging, and observation in nature with experimental visual art practice. Drawing on mindfulness traditions such as forest bathing and ...