What do we do when our way of life is fatally out-of-sync with our environment? Rachel Yang approaches this question through an analysis of the work of American writer and environmentalist Wallace Stegner. Engaging academic and journalistic sources, Yang interrogates Stegner’s “folklore of hope,” revealing the elitist underpinnings of the American Dream. As California’s forest […]
Through this uplifting and introspective piece, Sarah Waring reflects on the unique relationship between humans and the natural world in Bauer Park (Madison, Connecticut). Waring endearingly describes Bauer Park as an “impressionist painting” with incredible diversity in structure and plant life. In doing so, she continues to address the connection between living and inanimate components […]
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