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Radical Corridors

Lately, I’ve been captivated by this idea of living corridors – paths for wildlife as they spread out from generation to generation – that forms Sara Stein’s departing vision in her wonderful book Noah’s Garden. Her point is this:  if we want to invite wildlife back into our neighborhoods, we cannot go at it alone….

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Does Writing Remove Us?

In an earlier post, I wrote about a kind of literacy we seem to have lost: the ability to “read” our landscape, to recognize and name the plants that make up our natural world.  Thinking about this analogy between nature and writing, I started to wonder if one kind of literacy supplants another. In other…

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