It’s hard to miss sycamore snow. But there was one secret stage of it even my husband and I had never seen. First, have you held a sycamore ball in your palm? When it is fresh and tight, it may as ...

Dad gazed into the distance. The sun glinted off the pipelines, the fence, and the oil well. “Oil,” he said, “is the blood of ...

If you’d like to read more of Kercheval’s work, check out her new graphic memoir, French Girl.

Its iconic Holm oaks ( Qurcus ilex) are considered an integral part of the ecosystem. They are particularly favored—planted, managed, and regularly pruned—because they bear a sweet acorn that provides ...

IN OUR FREE TIME, WE DESTROY TREES. Hundreds of them by now. Five years ago, soon after I bought the place, I gave my partner a Husqvarna 450 Rancher for Christmas. Since then, he’s had to replace the ...

Cover image by Barbara Roux. Roux is a conservationist and artist living on Long Island, New York.

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The French writer Edmund Jabès described writing as a form of waiting, a relationship sculpted from silence and time—“to wait for words that wake our thoughts as they write us.” Idra Novey’s words ...

In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane.

IN THIS ISSUE, Holly Haworth peels back the world’s skin in “Bodies of Knowledge.” Katrina Vandenberg explores how a flower became our companion in the dark. In “Bayou Sutra,” Emily Sekine finds home ...

In this issue of Orion, we chart a life punctuated by rituals—from childbirth to coming of age to marriage to burial—all written in the material of nature: leaves, flowers, fire, water, food, seeds, ...