Tag Archives: Nature

Hurricanes Make Us All Poor, Infirm, Weak

By Robin Bates | Published: October 30, 2012

The onslaught of Hurricane Sandy reminds us of King Lear’s storm experience.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 21, 2012

Describing the slaughter of the buffalo herds by whites, Mary Oliver draws on Sioux religion to imagine them as not altogether gone.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 12, 2012

Scott Bates’s ABC of Radical Ecology calls for us to keep fighting to save the environment.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 7, 2012

“Beasts of the Southern Wild” points to the devastation coastal communities can expect from climate change.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 21, 2012

An afternoon spent in a friend’s boat brought to mind Huck and Jim watching the Mississippi River.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 14, 2012

Li Po’s poem captures the joys of a summer hike in the mountains.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 1, 2012

French poet Frédéric Mistral dreams of wild horses breaking free of civilization’s fetters.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 18, 2012

This Scott Bates looks at Pentecostal snake handlers from the snake’s point of view.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 1, 2012

To find a sense of deep connectedness, Emerson tell us we can’t cling to fragments.