The Trouble with Environmental Framing: How William Cronon Challenges Framing in “The Trouble with Wilderness”

Hermitage

It’s true there were times when it was too much and I slipped off in the first light or its…

Bad Daisies

An Essay on Irony

I spent my weekend reading Louise Glück’s The Wild Iris.

The Immigrant in the Room

I can remember when I first fell in love with produce. I was standing in this same exact field. Only it was June…

All Alone with Mother Nature: Thoreau and His Solitary Perspective

The Future of Conservation

In 2014, Emma Marris wrote an opinion piece for Orion about, among other things, whitebark pines and…

Reading Abbey Reading Thoreau

One primary reason that I decided to spend some time in the desert Southwest was the influence of Edward…

For Better Science and Anarchy: Anarchafeminism

The Sea and Me

Rachel Carson’s 1951 book, The Sea Around Us, is filled with alliterations that whisk together science, poetry and creative writing…

Rain Water and Drowned, Dead Bee

I am not entirely clear, as I read Leslie Marmon Silko’s Sacred Water, what is being communicated…