Orion Magazine

11/29/2025

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11/29/2025

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11/28/2025

On consumption.

" They seemed to arise out of nowhere by the millions. Lying in wait for decades, possibly."

11/28/2025

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11/27/2025

Danusha Laméris observes the turkeys in her backyard... and notices an unexpected interloper.

Discover the daily schedule of wild turkeys

11/26/2025

"I only make pecan pie at Thanksgiving," writes Robin Wall Kimmerer. "I don’t even like it especially, but I want to honor that tree."

On the social and ecological history, the mass-fruiting mystery, and the abundant generosity of pecan trees 👉 https://orionmagazine.org/article/pecan-trees-indigenous-land-rights/

11/25/2025

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11/25/2025

"Can I have a relationship with these animals alive? Or is the killing, the eating, that magical bridging, a crucial part of my love, part of my relationship with these animals, with the world?"

In this moving essay, Gretchen Legler ponders hunting and intimacy, and how our food shapes our relationship with the natural world.

On love and hunting ducks

11/24/2025

"Nothing is more threatening to one’s mental health than to be caught uncomfortably sober when it comes time for the leader of the free world to issue a televised and legally binding pardon to a bird."

On one of America's weirdest traditions: the turkey pardon.

A Thanksgiving lesson in forgiveness

11/24/2025

"Part of the great parentheses of our lives, dawn summons us to a world alive and death-defying, when the deepest arcades of life and matter beckon."

Good morning ☀️

The pleasure of life rekindled

11/23/2025

There’s a story behind everything we put on our plates. This is one of the many stories of millet.

On the slow translation of Senegalese food