TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, Julian Hoffman and his wife, Julia, decided to pack up their busy London lives and move to a place ...

When I forage with my children, I sink into the delights of radiant mornings—the splendor of trees laden with fruit, my girls ...

Julian Brave Noisecat is a writer, filmmaker, powwow dancer, student of Salish art and history, and author of We Survived the ...

Ponderosa is the tree equivalent of a big yellow lab waiting on the front porch, eager to welcome you home at the end of a ...

"How should the mind that can contemplate God relate to our fellow beings, the other life-forms of the world? What is our human responsibility?" ...

DEEP IN THE FORESTS of the southern coastal plains are places where trees rise up straight out of the ground, sometimes one hundred feet, their branches splayed all near the crown in a wide, high ...

IN OUR FREE TIME, WE DESTROY TREES. Hundreds of them by now. Five years ago, soon after I bought the place, I gave my partner a Husqvarna 450 Rancher for Christmas. Since then, he’s had to replace the ...

I OWE MY CAREER to Robert Redford. The list of people who can say that is long, but not many of those work at environmental organizations. I first met Bob in fall 2003 at the dedication of The Robert ...

IN THE FALL OF 1941, as the Nazis invaded Russia, choking trade routes into Leningrad and starving the city’s population, a group of botanists decided to not allow the world to end. They were ...

A CEMETERY SEEMED AN ODD PLACE to contemplate the boundaries of being. Sandwiched between the campus and the interstate, this old burial ground is our cherished slice of nearby nature where the long ...