Warp & Weft — Environmental Weavings

This is my third year of having a true winter, of watching the color drain from the trees and fall to the ground, of feeling the heaviness…

An Essay on Irony

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

A consideration of poets as translators of nature

As an active journalist/writer, passionate environmental activist, and a fun, laid-back waterman, David Helvarg employs a mosaic of…

Our environment is embodied in our bodies, encompassed within a complexity of inner and outer processes. An interplay of political and…

I found myself a bit cold. I was underdressed and frightfully aware of the sun’s waning ability to hold its head up. All around me was a…

I am not entirely clear, as I read Leslie Marmon Silko’s Sacred Water, what is being communicated. What does sacred water have to do with…

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

One primary reason that I decided to spend some time in the desert Southwest was the influence of Edward Abbey’s writings. His writings…