Naturalist’s Notebook: The Rainbow Connection
The poet Keats warned that understanding a rainbow may "unweave" it, robbing it of mystery. John Muir Laws disagrees.
Post Type Archives: Articles
California’s Blackbird
The tricolored blackbird traverses the Golden State with cat calls and friends.
A Particular Here, Now
It is a human impulse to wonder at the limits of what we know through experience alone.
Roaming in Nature
It’s not just that the ding of the text message is reaching me farther into the wilderness, it’s the way my whole view of nature feels like it’s now shaped...
The Primacy of Movement
To block a border, a route, a place to sleep, is an attempt to assert a hierarchy of beings.
An Ocean-to-Bay Hike: San Francisco’s Double Cross Trail
The companion to the Crosstown inspires with hidden nature and jaw-dropping views.
Swimming in the Bay: Salty Autumn
Autumn in San Francisco Bay is a halcyon moment between the punishing winds of summer and the frigid swells of winter.
Editor’s Letter: Notes From Bay Nature’s Long-Haulers
Notes from the special subspecies of readers who have been with us all 25 years of publishing—all 100 issues.
Walking in John Muir’s Footsteps at Alhambra Hills Open Space
Once slated for homes, now open to hikers
In These Gardens, New Home Lands Grow
On the blended ecologies that first-generation immigrants tend.
