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  • Deranged

    Finding a Sense of Place in the Landscape and in the Lifespan

    Deranged links ecological explorations with moments of individual maturation in nineteen essays that braid natural history and memoir. On one level, Deranged investigates salient environmental topics such as Colony Collapse Disorder, forest fragmentation, the near-extinction of Britain’s Large Blue Butterfly, altruism, the evolution of walking in early humans, and the threat of another mass ... Read more

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  • Sign Here If You Exist and Other Essays

    Series series The Journal Non/Fiction Prize
    Finalist for the 2022 ASLE Book Award in Creative WritingSign Here If You Exist explores states of being and states of mind, from the existence of God to sense of place to adoptive motherhood. In it, Jill Sisson Quinn examines how these states both disorient and anchor us as she treks through forests, along shorelines and into lakes and rivers as well as through memories and into scientific ... Read more

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    Why would a successful American physician choose to live in a twelve-foot-by-twelve-foot cabin without running water or electricity? To find out writer and activist William Powers visited Dr. Jackie Benton in rural North Carolina. No Name Creek gurgled through Bentons permaculture farm and she stroked honeybees wings as she shared her wildcrafter philosophy of living on a planet in crisis. Powers ... Read more

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  • Meditations of John Muir

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