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Last Words
In Bolivia's Madidi National Park, in the Amazon River basin, a caiman snaps at a bee. From Sierra magazine Last Words
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LAST WORDS
Corals spawn off the Cayman Islands, a late-night event that happens for just a few minutes each autumn. From Sierra magazine Last Words
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Coulda woulda shoulda
Electric cars were invented in the 1890s, and by 1900 accounted for nearly 40 percent of American autos. This 1909 poster portrays battery-powered carriages as more prestigious than their prevailing...
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Literary Roots
Library (2007) is Brooklyn artist Lori Nix's photograph of her ongoing scale-model diorama series "The City," set in an imagined posthuman future. From Sierra magazine Last Words
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Clouds, Meet Sea
A storm front rolls in toward Sydney, Australia. Photographer Jem Cresswell swam 200 yards offshore to capture it. From Sierra magazine Last Words
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Yosemite on Fire
September's Meadow Fire in Yosemite National Park burned nearly 5,000 acres, closed popular hiking trails, and required dozens of people to be evacuated by helicopter from the top of Half Dome (at...
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Are You Ripe Or Are You Rotting?
One of a series of still lifes in photographer Klaus Pichler's "One Third" project, which draws attention to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's estimate that up to a third of the world's food...
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The Art of War, Hummingbird Edition
Male Anna's hummingbirds become fiercely territorial at the start of the breeding season, which commences with the onset of winter rains on the West Coast. By From Sierra magazine Last Words
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Kissed by a Rhino
John Kamara, a baby-rhino keeper at Kenya's Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, gets up close with Kilifi, a two-year-old critically endangered black rhinoceros. In his 10 years at Lewa, Kamara has raised about...
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Cellphone Tower Pretends to Be Pine Tree
A cellphone tower disguised as a pine tree stands near the eastern border of Yosemite National Park. The photograph is from Robert Voit's New Trees collection. By From Sierra magazine Last Words
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How to Photograph Ghosts
Egrets gather on a floodplain in Danube-Dráva National Park, Hungary. Photographers Zsolt Kudich and Réka Zsirmon used a two-second exposure to capture the speed of airborne birds and the stillness of...
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Cownose Rays Migrate By the Thousand
Sandra Critelli was off the northern tip of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula on a small boat when it was surrounded by thousands of migrating cownose rays. "It was like watching millions of fall leaves...
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Eyes Wide Open
"With all its eyes the natural world looks out into the Open."—Rainer Maria Rilke By From Sierra magazine Last Words
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US Representative Raúl Grijalva on Where He Found His Passion for the Outdoors
When I was a young boy in southern Arizona, the sky islands of the Santa Rita Mountains were my front yard, the cactus-strewn plains of the Sonoran Desert my backyard. My father was a vaquero, a...
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Fueled by Nature
Every day when we head to the market through the streets of Chapala—the quiet Mexican town where we're spending the summer—my six-year-old son, Owen, drags his feet. Maybe it's the humidity. Maybe he's...
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Real Men Gather Musk Ox Wool
I step from the tundra into an alder thicket like a blind man off a curb into rush hour traffic. Although it is quiet in here aside from the whine of mosquitoes, my hackles rise. Was that a branch...
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Leigh Ann Henion Goes Paleo-Tech at the country's largest primitive...
Illustration by Joe AndersonJason Drevenak pulls deer sinew from a jar and angles it into his mouth like a piece of spaghetti. He's wearing uneven buckskin clothing and smells of wood smoke. I'm at the...
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A Charleston Newcomer Connects to Her New Home Through Foraging
When I moved to Charleston, South Carolina, in the summer of 2011, I expected to fall in love with the bougainvillea-draped city. The streets were lined with fat palm trees, and the nearby beaches were...
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A Charleston Newcomer Connects to Home Through Foraging
When I moved to Charleston, South Carolina, in the summer of 2011, I expected to fall in love with the bougainvillea-draped city. The streets were lined with fat palm trees, and the nearby beaches were...
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