“As an inky darkness steeped into the canyon, my eyes worked harder. On a bench across the arroyo bottom, several hundred palms of all ages gathered around seeps. Arrowweed, carrizo reeds, screwbeans, and saltgrass grew in their shadows. Climbing down across the mineral rich stream and up towards the bench, I found raccoon and skunk tracks in the mud. The best find, though, was as I approached the heart of the palm stand. There, in the ashes below a fire-tumbled giant, were palm seedlings. Scattered around in the darkness, there were densely toothed new palm sprouts and seedlings of various sizes and ages, manelike hairs emanating from their young, tender fronds. They were growing in the protection of their elders, where the earth gave freely of its waters. They would offer to future generations
the chance to see an oasis
as it should be, where it
should be.”
--Gary Paul Nabhan in Gathering the Desert,
University of Arizona Press, 1985.
University of Arizona Press, 1985.
NEW Minuscule by Mary Mageau
NEW A Different Kind of Wonderful by Elizabeth Ayres An excerpt from Invitation to Wonder: A Journey Through the Seasons
NEW Witnessing the Rhythms of Nature by Carolyn Saino
Field Journal: Spring by Jerry Dennis also The Windward Shore at the Jerry Dennis website
Cooking the Brook Trout by Mike Delp
See Mike Delp's books: Under the Influence of Water and The Last Good Water from Wayne State University Press
Inspiration by Bahiya Carter also Two Alone and Day's End
Warming Hut Walk by Marion L. Ritcey see also Winter Forest
Nature as Art and Inspiration: What is Haiga? and Writing and Enjoying Haibun by Mary Mageau
see Mary Mageau's books on her author page
Memories of My Childhood by Ann M. Brixey
Rage in Me Overwhelms by Kshitij Bansal and see Birth of Mirth
Mother Sun and Mistress Moon, Echo's Echoes, and Pirates of the Air by stardustraven
Translation by Ron Harton
Variant Music by Richard Yost
Ancient Beauty an essay and poem by Sara Alfieri
Our Ocean Front Retreat, The Blorenge An Autumn Walk and Forest Drive by Ann M. Brixey
Sea, Rainbow in the Dark & Cloud of Days by Pamela Hill
Carolina Wren A Song and Video by Shane Palkovitz
from What I Learned at Bug Camp a book by Sarah Juniper Rabkin
Canada and Beyond by Richard F. Fleck Now Complete See Richard's new book Mountains on My Mind
The Big Field: a Child's Year Under the Southern Cross-- a children's book by Anne Morddel
Tips on Writing a Nature Journal from the pages of Henry David Thoreau's Journal
Submission Guidelines: Share your nature writing with others at Naturewriting.com.
Send to editor@naturewriting.com
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NEW A Different Kind of Wonderful by Elizabeth Ayres An excerpt from Invitation to Wonder: A Journey Through the Seasons
NEW Witnessing the Rhythms of Nature by Carolyn Saino
Field Journal: Spring by Jerry Dennis also The Windward Shore at the Jerry Dennis website
Cooking the Brook Trout by Mike Delp
See Mike Delp's books: Under the Influence of Water and The Last Good Water from Wayne State University Press
Inspiration by Bahiya Carter also Two Alone and Day's End
Warming Hut Walk by Marion L. Ritcey see also Winter Forest
Nature as Art and Inspiration: What is Haiga? and Writing and Enjoying Haibun by Mary Mageau
see Mary Mageau's books on her author page
Memories of My Childhood by Ann M. Brixey
Rage in Me Overwhelms by Kshitij Bansal and see Birth of Mirth
Mother Sun and Mistress Moon, Echo's Echoes, and Pirates of the Air by stardustraven
Translation by Ron Harton
Variant Music by Richard Yost
Ancient Beauty an essay and poem by Sara Alfieri
Our Ocean Front Retreat, The Blorenge An Autumn Walk and Forest Drive by Ann M. Brixey
Sea, Rainbow in the Dark & Cloud of Days by Pamela Hill
Carolina Wren A Song and Video by Shane Palkovitz
from What I Learned at Bug Camp a book by Sarah Juniper Rabkin
Canada and Beyond by Richard F. Fleck Now Complete See Richard's new book Mountains on My Mind
The Big Field: a Child's Year Under the Southern Cross-- a children's book by Anne Morddel
Tips on Writing a Nature Journal from the pages of Henry David Thoreau's Journal
Submission Guidelines: Share your nature writing with others at Naturewriting.com.
Send to editor@naturewriting.com
What is Nature Writing?
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