Term: New Nature Writing

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Issue 12: Cities

Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 12th edition. In this issue, we present work on the theme of ‘cities,’ whether in...

Reading is an Ecological Act

The quiet, gentle, sometimes solitary but never lonely act of reading is one of the most radical actions one can take in the modern age....

Issue 11: Ecology

Welcome to Panorama’s 11th edition. In this issue we turn our attention to ecology—from the word’s earliest roots to present-day ecologies which span people, organisms,...

Issue 10: Intimacy

Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 10th edition. This issue focuses on INTIMACY in all its forms from a closeness and...

Osprey

Every spring, Ospreys migrate to the northeastern coast of the United States. In this essay, a chronically-ill woman living in a suburb of New York...

The Sound of Chattering Greek Ladies

Hills, sea, tzatziki, ouzo, Guinness, monasteries and woods, this lyric essay is a collage of journeys in Greece, Ireland and home town Amsterdam. Throughout this...

Pain & Joy, Loss & Recovery

Imagine visiting home after three years with a new perception of, and feeling for, your homeland. I’ll take you on a tour of Vietnam to...

An Acquaintance with Geumjeong Mountain

From the outside, all cities seem opposed to nature. They are, in effect, concrete and glass monstrosities that inhibit the growth of forests, supplant animal...

Trail Lesson

I had seen them before. Twice in the past year. Both times they saw me first. Silently peering at me from the edge of the...

Issue 9: Borders

In this issue we have work from India, Nigeria, Philippines, Israel, Netherlands, UK, USA, Brazil, South Korea, Thailand, Germany, Italy, and more. In many ways...

Wherever in the Blazes

Every pilgrim is familiar with trail blazes, and for long-distance walkers of any brand waymarking is something of an unreflective activity. But during the pilgrimage...

To the Hiker who Showed Me the Meadow of Wild Chives

From the peaks of the Rocky Mountains in Montana, you immediately understand why this American state has earned itself the nickname of “Big Sky” country....

Reservoir

There are spaces that hold magic, spaces that can create their own stories and lore, spaces where the veil is a little thinner. Crater Lake/Gii-was...

Of Roots and Pillars

Pillars came before wheels. They decorated temples in Turkey more than 11,000 years ago, they held aloft roofs in Gujarat 4500 years ago but that...

Moon Rock

Through the entrance of the chalk pits, space seems to expand, and the sky opens wider as I approach. The quarry forms a crater, opening...

Gossip Girls

The air was sticky as we navigated the bumpy back roads of the village of Ban Tuek in Thailand. I was about to volunteer to...

Foundlings: Trees I’ve Known Along the Way

There is a space between trees, a distance between where the tips of their branches touch and the light shines through. This space between living...

Eulsuko Island

My migratory path to the Nakdong River began on a peninsula well over five thousand miles to the east roughly hewn to the same latitude....

Buzz Off!

The Colorado Plateau is known for its triad of flying, buzzing pests: cedar gnats, biting black flies, and mosquitoes. On a recent trip, the mosquitoes...

Animal Gaze

To tell you that the Parisian apartment I shared with my family for a year was cramped would be an injustice to small things. Our...