“Recently, a young horticulturist said to me, ‘Y’all (meaning older horticulturists) focused on pretty flowers and pretty gardens. It’s time to think about plants that do more. Time to give native plants an…

“Mornings now are full of robins, some high in the weeping birch where they glow in the sunrise, others in the shadowed backyard oak, but most of them hidden in the big spruce…

“From where I sit, the water comes into sight up by the big midstream rock, swamper of canoes. It tumbles out of a long, boulder strewn riffle, piles up in a big eddy…

“Before a bulldozer came to flatten/the house, neighbors knew it would happen, looked/out from their late poker games and pool cues,/lifted bottles to the past, when we were/still alive, not quite in our…

“Claire Bateman, the dark-haired American woman of a certain age who sometimes sits across from me discussing current events and the state of the union bears no resemblance at all to the universe-sized,…

“The skies here in the extreme south of our planet are different from those anywhere else I have ever seen. There is something unaccountably vivid and luminous about the atmosphere, as if we…

“As a founding member of the AAAAAA, the American Association Against Acronym Abuse Anonymous, I ask your forgiveness for the epigraph above. I could not resist. The AAAAAA, which operates out of my…

“The Lost Coast remains one of the most untouched and remote areas of California’s North Coast. It earned its name in the 1930s when steep terrain and high construction costs made it impractical…

“As a Yoga teacher (which I am), I accept that negative chatter is contrary to the teachings of ahimsa, or non-harming. But if a swear word is screamed in a forest and no…

“At times, it seems like every single thing about the United States government under Donald Trump has become so toilet-licking, bug-chewing, propaganda-chugging stupid, that it’s nearly impossible to target an attack or mobilize…