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Simply

From Go Figure, which will be published this month by Wesleyan University Press. “were molecular machines operating on energy freely available from such sources as thermodynamic processes.” It sounds so…

The Power of the Dog

by Jackson Lears,

From Animal Spirits, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Soon after he graduated in 1909, Aldo Leopold headed to the Southwest to take a job…

Life’s a Beech

by C.D. Wright,

From Casting Deep Shade, which will be published by Copper Canyon Press next month. Wright (1949–2016) was a poet from the Arkansas Ozarks whose 2010 work, One With Others, was…

The Priest in the Trees

by Fred Bahnson,

Feral faith in the age of climate change

The Trees Step Out of the Forest

by Barbara Ehrenreich,

By Barbara Ehrenreich, from Living with a Wild God, out next month from Twelve. Ehrenreich, a longtime contributor to Harper’s Magazine, is the author of many books, including, most recently,…

The Once and Future World: Nature As it Was, As it Is, As it Could Be

by Sharon J. Riley,

J. B. MacKinnon on human efforts to engineer nature, and whether we can restore what we've lost

Little Green Men

by S. Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, Rebecca Roache,

From “Human Engineering and Climate Change,” by S. Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, Rebecca Roache, published last year in Ethics, Policy & Environment. A widely cited report by the United Nations…

Paradise now 18

by Peter Bialobrzeski,

Last call

by Edward Hoagland,

Old age and the end of nature

The Wisdom of Rats

by Charles Bowden,

From “Contested Ground,” which appeared in the November/December 2009 issue of Orion. Trinity, a collaboration between Bowden and photographer Michael P. Berman, was published last October by University of Texas…

Eclogue

by Mark Slouka,

On the rich sin of meddling