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When We Stopped Listening to Plants
Field Notes from the Anthropocene, Vol. I The first essay in a five-year series tracing plant kinship, ecological crisis, and the futures...
Blair Butterfield
Oct 56 min read


Daughter of Longleaf
From 90 million acres to 1%: A daughter's witness This essay traces the ecological and personal history of the longleaf pine ecosystem of...
Blair Butterfield
Aug 1514 min read


The Long Conversation: What Trees Remember About Being Human
In the long memory of Earth, few beings have been so entangled with human survival and story as trees. They are not background. They are...
Blair Butterfield
Aug 108 min read


The Story That Shadows the Sun
On learning to listen again The feeling arrives first in my chest—a quickening. Then hope: somewhere, in some remote pocket of earth,...
Blair Butterfield
Aug 93 min read
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