In this issue of Orion, we seek to let the mushroom be, simply, itself; a marvel of mystery and interconnectedness that ...

I HAD THE AMAZING EXPERIENCE, in preparing for this conversation, of getting to read these authors’ works all at once—Merlin Sheldrake, Jeff VanderMeer, and Kaitlin Smith. I hope it’s not ...

ON A MID-AUGUST SUNDAY in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian Schwarz, ...

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I DO NOT KNOW THE NIGHT; I sleep with the sun. This makes summer days feel long and glorious—and winters, hard. I do not know the night, and maybe I am afraid of what it suggests, the infinite ...

Mushrooms on log, one large, many smaller, Kesselbach; Gerda Arendt / Wikimedia Commons ...

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Bob Pyle on making convincing bird calls, his favorite words, and sweetness. In which we get to know our favorite environmental figures better by exploring the sacred and the mundane with them.

But lilacs do not belong in pots. The cramped space is too stressful on their root systems, which twist and dig and ...

Author Alan Weisman is a well-traveled man. He has reported from all seven continents and in more than sixty countries, weaving through jungles and slogging through swamps, commun ...