Braiding Sweetgrass
Essays that bring botanical knowledge, Indigenous teaching and the practice of reciprocity into one sustained conversation.
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Nature & Exploration
Travel and nature writing can widen attention or reproduce old habits of possession. This hub pairs field observation with writing that asks who knows a place, what lies beneath it and what a reader owes to the living world.
Questions to carry
Read with a live question.
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What changes when a landscape is treated as a relation rather than a backdrop?
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How does travel alter the observer?
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Which histories remain visible in the land?
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Contemporary guides
Original Linden maps for deciding how—and whether—to read important recent nonfiction.
Underland
A journey through caves, mines, burial places and deep time that asks what humans conceal and leave behind.
Open the guideThe Sixth Extinction
Field reporting and deep history brought together to show extinction as both scientific pattern and present-tense event.
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Classic texts in the conversation
Public-domain works that reveal earlier arguments, methods and social conditions.
The Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin
Travel & Nature · B2–C1 · 14 hr0% read
Walden and Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Philosophy · B2–C1 · 9 hr0% read
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
Robert Louis Stevenson
Travel & Nature · B1–B2 · 3 hr0% read
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
Travel & Nature · B1–B2 · 3 hr · Guide0% read
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