Nature Guidance

Early in the winter of 2006, Jenna Butler found herself standing on a cold country road, looking over an unpromising quarter section of northern bush. With the glow of her car’s headlights, she surve …

Winner of the 2014 Orion Book Award for Nonfiction Winner of the John Burroughs Association 2014 Medal for Distinguished Natural History Book In Sightlines, Kathleen Jamie reports from the field—from …

John Seibert Farnsworth’s delightful field notes are not only about nature, but from nature as well. In Nature Beyond Solitude, he lets us peer over his shoulder as he takes his notes. We follow him …

A collection of vibrant essays on climate change, and conservation to inform, stimulate and call every nature lover to action. “I can’t think of a more important book that’s been written about Britis …

The Last Speaker of Bear  is the patchwork story of a life spent traveling in the north from Alaska to Siberia. Lawrence Millman first visited northern Canada as a child and has spent four decad …

Award-winning nature writer John Leland offers a collection of twenty-seven short, poetic essays that marry science and the humanities as the author seeks meaning in trees. Readings in Wood is an inv …

‘Amy Irvine implores us to trade in our solitude for solidarity, to recognize ourselves in each other and in the places we love, so that we might come together to save them.’ —PAM HOUSTON As Edward A …

“Woodsqueer” is sometimes used to describe the mindset of a person who has taken to the wild for an extended period of time. Gretchen Legler is no stranger to life away from the rapid-fire pace of th …

‘… a lucid compendium of practices for the craft of awakening.’ -David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous Have you ever wanted to take your meditation practice outdoors? Or wondered how you …

In this collection, prize-winning Irish essayist Chris Arthur ranges over subjects as various as a girl’s ear, a vulture’s egg, the letters in a Scrabble game, a sprig of witch-hazel, and the chasms …