In it, she asks, “How do we build the future on a deep yes, a deep longing for what we want?” This powerful inquiry is a question that continues to guide me as I work to empower others to imagine a ...

Why would trees go through the trouble of making this energetically expensive class of molecule in their leaves right before ...

Their fascinating, morbid jewelry was beautiful and repulsive, but I couldn’t muster anything to say. I simply stood and ...

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I GREW UP watching bats. For the kids in my suburban Long Island neighborhood in the 1980s, late summer nights were ...

The French writer Colette (1873–1954) wrote this piece during World War I. It was first published in Excelsior, a French newspaper, on January 29, 1918. “DO YOU KNOW that in a passage between trenches ...

Rhizomes are the runners that many plants and trees (like sassafras, elder, Solomon’s seal, ferns, and mayapples) send forth as they spread outward from a “mother” plant into a proliferation of shoots ...

THE WIND WHIPS our small figures as we follow the trail of packed snow over the frozen waters of Medicine Lake in a suburb outside Minneapolis. I’m in graduate school, yet to pass my qualifying exams.

There is no one quite like Jeff VanderMeer. With his naturalist’s eye, philosopher’s heart, and extreme imagination, the man can set a singular saturated mood–one that positively vibrates with life, ...

Start out as a free-floating larva, letting the ocean carry you where it will. It’s okay, you don’t need to see anything. Your eyes will grow in good time, when you’re ready for a place to land. When ...