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After a rogue wave nearly killed him off the coast of South Africa, Beau Miles began seeking a different sort of adventure: the kind he could find outside his front door.

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I’m Walking Here

In this series of letters for the new year, we asked some of our collaborators to answer the question, “What’s the opposite of burnout for you?” Here, Toronto-based radio/podcast producer and artist Aliya Pabani writes about the surprising power of performativity in everyday life.

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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander’s Unshakable Confidence

For nearly a century, right up until her death on May 22 last year, landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander tended her garden, greened the concrete of big cities across the world, and sowed seeds that became forests.
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The Vision Quest

How can we bring meaningful change to the world? Go to the land, writes Nii Gaani Aki Inini (Leading Earth Man) – Dave Courchene, of the Anishinabe Nation, in this…
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The Language of Place

In partnership with The North Face

“I am my own ancestor,” says Myia Antone, a Skwxwú7mesh language teacher, in this interview about land-based education and intergenerational love.
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Speedy Recovery

Convalescence is the body asserting its own tempo.

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Rooted in the Intimacy of Bodies

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