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Speaking of Nature - Orion Magazine
March/April 2017. June 12, 2017. A CEMETERY SEEMED AN ODD PLACE to contemplate the boundaries of being. Sandwiched between the campus and the interstate, this old burial ground is our cherished slice of nearby nature where the long dead are silent companions to college students wandering the hilly paths beneath rewilding oaks.
The Greatest Nature Essay Ever - Orion Magazine
October 30, 2008. . . . WOULD BEGIN WITH an image so startling and lovely and wondrous that you would stop riffling through the rest of the mail, take your jacket off, sit down at the table, adjust your spectacles, tell the dog to lie down, tell the kids to make their own sandwiches for heavenssake, that’s why god gave you hands, and read ...
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Protecting the Prairie - Orion Magazine
The Prairie Abides. THE MOVEMENT TO CONSERVE grasslands, though lesser known than most environmental causes, is gaining momentum and support—sometimes in fraught places. In 2021, the NRCS launched its Great Plains Grassland Initiative, which supports landowners fighting woody encroachment in core rangeland areas—a ranching-centric model that befits the agency’s problematic placement ...
The Best of Wendell Berry - Orion Magazine
January 2007. A story from the center of the world. Best Video: Fire & Grit Plenary Talk (26 minutes) Summer 1999. Berry delivered this talk in June 1999 during an Orion conference, Fire & Grit, which took place in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Wendell Berry has been an Orion contributor and advisor since the magazine’s beginnings in 1982.
Old Growth: The Best Writing About Trees From Orion
Aug 17, 2021 · Now in its third printing! “This book is an arboretum of essays, not showcasing ‘trees’ as a class of beings, but rather stories of interspecies relationships of an arboreal kind, as diverse in scope as trees are in leaf.”” — Robin Wall Kimmerer. Orion Magazine presents Old Growth, an anthology of essays and poems about the rich inner lives of trees.
Pick Your Poem: 6 Poems to Transport You into the Natural World
Apr 2, 2024 · Six poems from and for the natural world. Edited by Ada Limón. AS PART OF HER tenure as the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate and in association with the Library of Congress, Ada Limón commissioned fifty-two contemporary American poets to reflect on their place in the natural world. The resulting anthology of original poems grounded in the natural ...
On Reviving Rachel Carson’s Long-Forgotten Television Script
Mar 5, 2024 · A young viewer had submitted a request to see “something about the sky.”. Moved by the youthful wondering, Carson wrote a script, and the segment, “Something about the Sky,” aired on March 11, 1956. Orion sent the excerpts available publicly from this long-forgotten project. The parts were mostly about clouds.
The Spirit of Beyoncé - Orion Magazine
February 16, 2024. SOMETIMES REVENGE IS the only first response to betrayal. Then comes the journey toward healing. When Beyoncé’s husband, rapper and music mogul Jay-Z, cheated on her with the now infamous “Becky with the good hair,” she didn’t stay quiet. She brought her rage and vision to her 2016 visual album Lemonade.