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Why do we name places after people?
I used to take place-names for granted. Then I realized how much they say about my culture’s relationship to nature and place.
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A class on class and nature
In which our hero started telling a story and got confused
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From dread to delight
In a sequel to Nature's drift, how a Wyoming river changed my perspective
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wilderness cosmology
In Montana, the writer saw wilderness as a way to critique society
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Nature's drift
How a Montana Creek Changed My Perspective
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Thomas Wolfe and the greatest Western novel that never was
Reflections on the role of story in reflecting and shaping culture
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Urgent! You need to learn how to set aside urgency
Leading with panic makes for bad storytelling, in both business and climate
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Why you should care about Rosalie Edge
My case for an unfairly-forgotten conservationist
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Our first year, plus links and recs
52 weeks of stories, nature, entrepreneurship, and community
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Follow the money, away from land
Do the rich really want to plunder the West’s public lands?
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When institutions navigate natural stories
Last week I watched science and journalism face converging crises with diverging paths
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Lessons in eeriness from an odd trip to Yosemite
Finding the sublime in the smoky haze
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Natural Stories
Natural Stories
Nature is story; stories are our nature
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