Orion Magazine

05/31/2026

How do we come to terms with once-wild land that’s been developed, industrialized, pillaged? Trebbe Johnson works it out in this piece from the Orion archive.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/uncommon-gratitude/

05/30/2026

“There has to be an unknown world out there. There have to be unknown woods that are beyond our grasp. Creatures we haven’t yet met.”

Lisa Wells and Lydia Millet on writing.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/lydia-millet-writer-interview-2024/

05/29/2026

Name one animal that’s more hardworking than the beaver.

On community labor:
https://orionmagazine.org/article/beaver/

05/28/2026

Wildland firefighters are often unsung heroes. But there’s another underappreciated, fire-preventing hero in some of their midsts: goats.

"What takes a human crew days to clear, a herd can devour in hours."

05/28/2026

Meet the real linden tree—planted in 1438 (!) and still standing to this day—that utterly enchanted writer Caitlin Shetterly.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-tree-in-the-square/

05/28/2026

“Maybe there is hope for us. Maybe demagogues don’t hold all the power, yes, they prey on fear, but there is prey who does not always obey fear.”

Four writers talk about fish, how they helped them see the world, and the books they wrote about them.

A conversation about finding community in the aquatic

05/26/2026

This tree was planted "so long ago that Joan of Arc had just been burned at the stake, Shakespeare was not yet born, and the Medici family was still patronizing Michelangelo."

It came to be known, affectionately, predictably, as Gros Tilleul: Big Linden.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-tree-in-the-square/

05/23/2026

"Mind if I drop to hands and knees and give you a sniff? Would that be weird?"
https://orionmagazine.org/article/17-ways-to-greet-the-first-wildflowers-of-spring/

05/22/2026

In which a sensualist makes the most of spring.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/how-to-eat-a-flower/

05/21/2026

When Devon Fredericksen found that she had a new office mate, she set about getting to know her more. Only, the getting-to-know-you part of it all was a bit one-sided: the new co-worker was a mason bee.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/co-working-space/