The Orchid and the Algorithm
Finding our way to nature in the age of distraction
Chasing Nature
Essays on wildlife, wild places and the human condition.
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Don't Save the Pupfish
The desecration of morality and the Endangered Species Act
A Dragonfly Without Borders
How a restless insect wanders our flawed and beautiful planet
A Poem and a Parasite
A vulture's memoir and "disco zombie snails"
The Promise of an Insect Egg
Or how I got intimate at a pond with a dragonfly
Letter from Flight Season
A tapestry of moths, an ancient animal, birdwatching humor, and a preview of my next essay about the relegation of nature
Sex, Theft and a Beetle
How The New York Times whiffed on a story about polyamory, poison and going outside without your phone
A Flower Reminds Me Where I Belong
Lost in nature or culture, I find my way to bogs and Rhodora
Virtue in a Droplet
On a rare parasitic plant, my tiny discovery became a way of grace and triumph
A Songbird for a Damaged World
Named for palms, destined for bogs, a migrating warbler meets me at the shopping center
Seeing Red
The grace and brutality of a color — in nature and the culture