Outdoors
In the mountains, deserts, forests, and on the water.
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Hitchhiking: Guaranteed to be interesting
After hiking through the desert for a week, I was standing on the American side of the Mexican border. I was dusty, tired, needed a…
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Air or Earth: There’s no bigger contrast than an airport and the Great Outdoors
A gentle reminder that, now more than ever, flying is our punishment for daring to defy gravity. Nein Quarterly (Eric Jarosinski) Air travel is the…
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Star Bowl Spinning Overhead: Night Poem by Kim Stanley Robinson
Writing by starlight Can’t see the words Fill a page Nothing there Waterfall distant sound Tree against stars Milky Way Juniper Jupiter white rock Wind…
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Napping Outside: One of the best ways to experience nature
One of my favorite things when I’m out backpacking or canoeing is to take an afternoon nap under a tree somewhere. Karl Heinrich Waggerl wrote…
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Meadows: Comparing the Alps and the Sierra Nevada
This is a mountain meadow in Lower Austria. Comparable meadows in the Sierra Nevada have fewer wildflowers and fewer insects, both in terms of absolute…
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
I have known about Annie Dillard for some time but I have never before read anything she has written. In retrospect, that was a mistake.…
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