HeyJaredThe Outsider
Quiet reflections on nature and our place in it. | Emily Grandy is an award-winning novelist and biomedical editor who writes at the intersection of science, ecology, and storytelling.
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Fruitful Wanderings (opens the original)
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In Praise of Short Walks (opens the original)
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And so, I go into the woods. As I go in under the trees, dependably, almost at once, and by nothing I do, things fall into place… I enter an order that does not exist outside, in the human spaces. I feel my life take its place among the lives of the trees, the annual plants, the animals and birds, the living of all these and the dead – that go and have gone to make the life of the earth.—Wendell Berry, “A Native Hill” (1968),
Gardening Ethics (opens the original)
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Urban Sanctuary (opens the original)
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Shifting Baseline Syndrome (opens the original)
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