Archive - Natural Stories

October 2024

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wilderness cosmology

In Montana, the writer saw wilderness as a way to critique society

Oct 29 •

How a Montana Creek Changed My Perspective

Oct 22 •

Thomas Wolfe and the greatest Western novel that never was

Reflections on the role of story in reflecting and shaping culture

Oct 15 •

Urgent! You need to learn how to set aside urgency

Leading with panic makes for bad storytelling, in both business and climate

Oct 8 •

Why you should care about Rosalie Edge

My case for an unfairly-forgotten conservationist

Oct 1 •

September 2024

Our first year, plus links and recs

52 weeks of stories, nature, entrepreneurship, and community

Sep 24 •

Follow the money, away from land

Do the rich really want to plunder the West’s public lands?

Sep 17 •

When institutions navigate natural stories

Last week I watched science and journalism face converging crises with diverging paths

Sep 10 •

Lessons in eeriness from an odd trip to Yosemite

Finding the sublime in the smoky haze

Sep 3 •

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