Dad gazed into the distance. The sun glinted off the pipelines, the fence, and the oil well. “Oil,” he said, “is the blood of ...

If you’d like to read more of Kercheval’s work, check out her new graphic memoir, French Girl.

T HE CHINESE CHARACTER for silkworm (蚕) is composed of the symbol for sky (天) and the symbol for worm (虫). They are heavenly ...

The French writer Edmund Jabès described writing as a form of waiting, a relationship sculpted from silence and time—“to wait for words that wake our thoughts as they write us.” Idra Novey’s words ...

IN OUR FREE TIME, WE DESTROY TREES. Hundreds of them by now. Five years ago, soon after I bought the place, I gave my partner a Husqvarna 450 Rancher for Christmas. Since then, he’s had to replace the ...

The world is full of tinier ones, each with its own set of rules, cultures, natural ways. Orion‘s Winter 2022 issue, Microcosms: Reading the miniature worlds around us, tells the story of these tiny ...

That’s the core message of Orion’s Autumn 2023 issue, Seeking Shelter: The environments of the unhoused and the displaced. In this issue: ...

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Collette Leimomi Akana’s Hānau ka Ua compiles more than two hundred Hawaiian rain names, from oral tradition, songs, chants, and Hawaiian-language literature and newspapers. In an Indigenous language ...

The Name of Time: Forty origin stories for the anthropocene The Summer of 2022 marks Orion’s 40th anniversary, which means our Summer issue this year is something entirely new: The Name of Time: 40 ...

The first issue of the Orion Nature Quarterly was published in June 1982, and in its editorial George Russell, the publication’s first Editor-in-Chief, boldly stated Orion’s values: “It is Orion’s ...