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“In the depths of quiet contemplation, where the rhythms of life and nature intertwine, I find myself drawn into a profound kinship with the lithic and the geologic processes that have shaped our planet through time. From the gentle caress of wind and water to the violent eruptions of volcanoes and the slow dance of tectonic plates, these processes have forged the very fabric of our existence. In the quietude of my photographic encounters, I recognize that we are but ephemeral guests in this grand theater of deep time.

My artistic journey into the lithic world began with a yearning to communicate beyond human language, to explore the beauty of silence and stillness that lies at the core of our existence. In the presence of stones, I find a language that transcends words—a language that speaks of timelessness, resilience, and wisdom accumulated over eons. This photographic series, Our Shared Language Is Silence, investigates the subtle connections and unspoken dialogues that emerge with the more-than-human world when we slow down and observe with intent.” — Sarah Bachinger, “Our Shared Language Is Silence”

🔗 To read “Our Shared Language Is Silence” in full and view Sarah Bachinger’s photographs, visit this link: https://humansandnature.org/our-shared-language-is-silence

Sarah Bachinger is a New York based artist. As a collaborator with the more-than-human, her work attempts to transmute their material experiences through archive + art. She is interested in exploring and opening spaces for speculative communications between more-than-human agents + humans as a means of presenting alternative perspectives to anthropocentric histories + imagined futures.

Pictured: New earth - Lava tubes fan out in formation at the terminus of the Fagradalsfjall lava flow from an eruption in 2021.

Photo by Sarah Bachinger.

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📚 “Wander and linger with the poems and essays in these volumes-from tundra to desert, from soil to sky, each brings an essential voice and view to the profoundest of questions. Some will make you laugh, and others weep. Together, the words in this collection make triumphant and vital cacophony that add to their meditations on earth, air, fire and water a new element: life, and how to live it.”

—Dr. Bathsheba Demuth, writer and environmental historian and author of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

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🌿 Elementals is almost here! September 3rd! Visit this link to pre-order the series: https://humansandnature.org/elementals 🌿

🦎 What can the vital forces of Earth, Air, Water, and Fire teach us about being human in a more-than-human world?

The five volumes of Elementals, the second book series published by Humans & Nature Press, offer essays, poetry, and stories that illuminate the dynamic relationships between people and place, human and nonhuman life, mind and the material world, and the living energies that make all life possible.

✍️ Elementals is edited by Gavin Van Horn & Bruce Jennings with poetry editors Nickole Brown & Craig Santos Perez. With 90+ contributors, the series explores how people from various cultures across the planet have worked with these powerful forces of change and regeneration to shape landscapes and deepen personal and place-based relationships.

📖 Elementals includes: Earth, Vol. 1 - Hannah Eisler Burnett & Kristi Leora Gansworth, volume editors | Air, Vol. 2 - Daegan Miller, volume editor | Water, Vol. 3 - Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, volume editor | Fire, Vol. 4 - Stephanie Krzywonos, volume editor | An Elemental Life, Vol. 5 - John Hausdoerffer, volume editor

✨ Visit this link to learn more and pre-order the series: https://humansandnature.org/elementals ✨

Pre-orders help Humans & Nature Press with spreading the word about Elementals and getting our books onto the shelves of wonderful booksellers.

We can’t wait to share Elementals with you.

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🌱 “When nourishment occurs, we can understand that act to be one in which elements flow from one form to another—and in some cases, move back again. Nourishment reveals a certain universal community of life on Earth, one in which we are linked one to another through extended chains of edibility.” —Evan Edwards

🔗 Read “Eating and Metamorphosis” by Evan Edwards: https://humansandnature.org/eating-and-metamorphosis

✍️ Evan Edwards is a chef and educator living in Grand Rapids. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from DePaul University in Chicago, where he completed a dissertation on the philosophy of food entitled Autotrophy of the Other in 2022.

Pictured: Evan Edwards. Photo courtesy of the author.

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“As Coccia puts it in his Metamorphoses, nourishment is ‘the thought of that single life which at once and with the same authority animates us and the thing eaten, the thought of the life which lives everywhere, in us and outside of us.’ Nourishment names, then, the fact that life is sustained not just by other life, or even just by some particular other life, but also by the same life that animates the eater. Life itself is the subject, site, and object of its own nourishment.” —Evan Edwards

🔗 Read “Eating and Metamorphosis” by Evan Edwards here: https://humansandnature.org/eating-and-metamorphosis

✍️ Evan Edwards is a chef and educator living in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from DePaul University in Chicago, where he completed a dissertation on the philosophy of food entitled “Autotrophy of the Other” in 2022.

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“To will that some thing, whether a plant or an animal product, become our meal is to will that our own body, our own living, be composed of that thing. Through ingestion, we choose to carry that other body within us, to make it our own. When I consume plants on the plate in front of me or the dead animal that itself ingested a plant, I am at once myself and, by way of carrying it within me, the other thing as well. To elect something as my meal is to elect that my very being incorporate that something, and therefore to elect that my project of living take a new form, one that is at once what I was before the meal and the thing that I have since ingested. Through ingestion, then, we will a metamorphosis of our body according to our taste.

All this is possible because the elements that constitute our flesh are the same as those that constitute the flesh of the cosmos. What might make a given thing edible is that it is constituted by the particular elements an eater needs to sustain life; the eater’s flesh is constituted precisely by those elements. We call the moment when those elements and flesh meet ‘nourishment.’ That is, when the elements in some edible being meet with some other being in such a way that the life of the latter is restored by the incorporation of the former, we say that the latter has been ‘nourished’ by that being.” —Evan Edwards

🔗 Read “Eating and Metamorphosis” by Evan Edwards here: https://humansandnature.org/eating-and-metamorphosis

✍️ Evan Edwards is a chef and educator living in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from DePaul University in Chicago, where he completed a dissertation on the philosophy of food entitled “Autotrophy of the Other” in 2022.

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📚 “This collection feels medicinal and miraculous all at once. The editors have gathered a constellation of some of our brightest minds, all focused on the world’s single most important topic: how can life co-flourish here on earth, with one another and with the raw stuff of the universe? This is not just ‘nature writing.’ This is cosmic writing.”

— Robert Moor, bestselling author of On Trails: An Exploration

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🌿 The second five-volume book series published by Humans & Nature Press, Elementals will be released on September 3rd, 2024!

✍️ Edited by Gavin Van Horn & Bruce Jennings with poetry editors Nickole Brown & Craig Santos Perez, Elementals asks: What can the vital forces of Earth, Air, Water, and Fire teach us about being human in a more-than-human world? 🌿

🔗 Visit this link to pre-order Elementals: humansandnature.org/elementals

Pre-orders help Humans & Nature Press with spreading the word about Elementals and getting our books onto the shelves of wonderful booksellers.

📖 The five Elementals volumes—Earth, Air, Water, Fire, An Elemental Life—offer essays, poetry, and stories that illuminate the dynamic relationships between people and place, human and nonhuman life, mind and the material world, and the living energies that make all life possible.

With more than 90 contributors, the series explores how people from various cultures across the planet have worked with these powerful forces of change and regeneration to shape landscapes and deepen personal and place-based relationships.

The Elementals book series comprises five volumes, including:

🍄 Vol. 1 – Earth. Hannah Eisler Burnett & Kristi Leora Gansworth, volume editors. Contributors: Marcia Bjornerud, Hannah Eisler Burnett, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Nickole Brown, Franny Choi, Rita Dove, Kristi Leora Gansworth, Emma Gilheany, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Liam Heneghan, Jessica Jacobs, Danielle B. Joyner, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Laticia McNaughton, Tia Pocknett, Oyah Beverly Reed Scott, Jane Slade, Melissa Tuckey, Andreas Weber

☁️ Vol. 2 ­– Air. Daegan Miller, volume editor. Contributors: Báyò Akómoláfé, Darran Anderson, Sohini Basak, Ellen Bass, Sara Beck, Gabrielle Bellot, Rita Dove-official, Ross Gay, Benjamin Kunkel, Antonia Malchik, Daegan Miller, Aimee Nezhukumatathil-official, Craig Santos Perez, Roy Scranton, Nicholas Triolo, Michele Wick, Andrew S. Yang, Felicia Zamora

🌊 Vol. 3 – Water. Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, volume editor. Contributors: Clifford Atleo, Elizabeth Bradfield, Nickole Brown, Hannah Close, Geffrey Davis, Margo Farnsworth, Forrest Gander, Joy Harjo, Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Bruce Jennings, J. Drew Lanham, Lisa María Madera, Marzieh Miri, Kathleen Dean Moore, Martin Lee Mueller, Mark Riegner, Anna Selby, Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, CD Wright, Robert Wrigley, Özge Yaka

🔥 Vol. 4 – Fire. Stephanie Krzywonos, volume editor. Contributors: Glenn A. Albrecht, David Baker, Tamiko Beyer, Eiren Caffall, Jane Caputi, Rina Garcia Chua, Catharina Coenen, Lucille Lang Day, Charlotte Du Cann, Camille T. Dungy, José G. González, Ron W. Goode, Jane Hirshfield, Stephanie Krzywonos, Miriam Morrill (Pyrosketchology), Nina Mingya Powles, Em Strang, Isaac Yuen, Tyson Yunkaporta

👣 Vol. 5 – An Elemental Life. John Hausdoerffer, volume editor. Contributors: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Elizabeth J. Coleman Poet, Mark Coleman, CMarie Fuhrman, Liz Beachy Gómez, David George Haskell, John Hausdoerffer, Sean Hill, Brenda Hillman, Suzanne Kelly (Green Owl Farm), Priyanka Kumar, Carina Lyall, David Macauley, Matthew Olzmann, Yakuta Poonawalla, Joerg Rieger, Vandana Shiva, Sophie Strand, Heather Swan, Leeanna T. Torres, Gavin Van Horn

We’re grateful for your support and enthusiasm for our publications and can’t wait to share Elementals with you.

🍃 Pre-order the series here: humansandnature.org/elementals 🍃

Book design by Mere Montgomery, LimeRed 🎨

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📚 “Refreshing as desert rain yet implacable as a flash flood; fragrant as loam (fine and filthy and veined by mycelia); diaphanous as breath yet just as nourishing to the body; both erotic and terrifying, like tendrils of flame licking your toes. The talking leaves in this bundle of books torque and transform language into something like food. Disparate flavors interlace and take the tongue hostage. Scrumptious.”

—Dr. David Abram, cultural ecologist, geophilosopher, performance artist, and author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology and The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World

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🌿 The second five-volume book series published by Humans & Nature Press, Elementals will be released on September 3rd, 2024! Edited by Gavin Van Horn & Bruce Jennings with poetry editors Nickole Brown & Craig Santos Perez, Elementals asks: What can the vital forces of Earth, Air, Water, and Fire teach us about being human in a more-than-human world? 🌿

🔗 Visit this link to pre-order Elementals: humansandnature.org/elementals Pre-orders help Humans & Nature Press with spreading the word about Elementals and getting our books onto the shelves of wonderful booksellers.

📖 The five Elementals volumes—Earth, Air, Water, Fire, An Elemental Life—offer essays, poetry, and stories that illuminate the dynamic relationships between people and place, human and nonhuman life, mind and the material world, and the living energies that make all life possible.

With more than 90 contributors, the series explores how people from various cultures across the planet have worked with these powerful forces of change and regeneration to shape landscapes and deepen personal and place-based relationships.

The Elementals book series comprises five volumes, including:

🍄 Vol. 1 – Earth. Hannah Eisler Burnett & Kristi Leora Gansworth, volume editors. Contributors: Marcia Bjornerud, Hannah Eisler Burnett, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Nickole Brown, Franny Choi, Rita Dove, Kristi Leora Gansworth, Emma Gilheany, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Liam Heneghan, Jessica Jacobs, Danielle B. Joyner, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Laticia McNaughton, Tia Pocknett, Oyah Beverly Reed Scott, Jane Slade, Melissa Tuckey, Andreas Weber

Earth is living matter, place, and planet; soil, ground, and home. This volume offers earthy perspectives and elemental paths toward an ethic of interdependence, connection, and care for planet, place, and relations.

☁️ Vol. 2 ­– Air. Daegan Miller, volume editor. Contributors: Báyò Akómoláfé, Darran Anderson, Sohini Basak, Ellen Bass, Sara Beck, Gabrielle Bellot, Rita Dove-official, Ross Gay, Benjamin Kunkel, Antonia Malchik, Daegan Miller, Aimee Nezhukumatathil-official, Craig Santos Perez, Roy Scranton, Nicholas Triolo, Michele Wick, Andrew S. Yang, Felicia Zamora

Infinite and always in motion, constituent of everything, air is unutterably old, and its spirit carries with it the story of everything. This volume, in its creative exploration of this most ethereal yet indispensable of elements, provides breathing room for the imagination to thrive.

🌊 Vol. 3 – Water. Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, volume editor. Contributors: Clifford Atleo, Elizabeth Bradfield, Nickole Brown, Hannah Close, Geffrey Davis, Margo Farnsworth, Forrest Gander, Joy Harjo, Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Bruce Jennings, J. Drew Lanham, Lisa María Madera, Marzieh Miri, Kathleen Dean Moore, Martin Lee Mueller, Mark Riegner, Anna Selby, Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, CD Wright, Robert Wrigley, Özge Yaka

As a living presence, the circulation and flow of healthy waters make life on Earth possible and defines our very existence. This volume invites us to ponder the traditions, perspectives, and aspirations linked to this vital element.

🔥 Vol. 4 – Fire. Stephanie Krzywonos, volume editor. Contributors: Glenn A. Albrecht, David Baker, Tamiko Beyer, Eiren Caffall, Jane Caputi, Rina Garcia Chua, Catharina Coenen, Lucille Lang Day, Charlotte Du Cann, Camille T. Dungy, José G. González, Ron W. Goode, Jane Hirshfield, Stephanie Krzywonos, Miriam Morrill (Pyrosketchology), Nina Mingya Powles, Em Strang, Isaac Yuen, Tyson Yunkaporta

Fire remains wild, increasingly so today, but its domestication changed the course of human evolution. This volume asks what the many manifestations of fire might be imparting to us now, and how fire may be beckoning us to keep and tend to our elemental relations with care.

👣 Vol. 5 – An Elemental Life. John Hausdoerffer, volume editor. Contributors: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Elizabeth J. Coleman Poet, Mark Coleman, CMarie Fuhrman, Liz Beachy Gómez, David George Haskell, John Hausdoerffer, Sean Hill, Brenda Hillman, Suzanne Kelly (Green Owl Farm), Priyanka Kumar, Carina Lyall, David Macauley, Matthew Olzmann, Yakuta Poonawalla, Joerg Rieger, Vandana Shiva, Sophie Strand, Heather Swan, Leeanna T. Torres, Gavin Van Horn

If the elements are kin to one other, then what does it mean to live in kinship with the elements? This volume brings the elements into confluence with one another, exploring diverse practices of what it means to live elementally.

We’re grateful for your support and enthusiasm for our publications and can’t wait to share Elementals with you.

Book design by Mere Montgomery, LimeRed 🎨

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“‘Our future is totally blocked because of war, because of climate change, we can’t project many things in our life. But we have gardens where every year we can begin something new, and we can project something. So, I think that’s why the gardens today are so flourishing and so alive…’ Anne explained. The revitalization of gardens and the proliferation of different kinds of gardens demonstrates the basic need for us to create and grow things and to trust that the cycle repeats.

To proceed with the project Anne imagined, gardens and gardeners were contacted. Partners in the territory of La chambre d’eau responded first: They represented a shared garden in a social center, and then a market gardener came through the network. Anne set up meetings and events with gardeners ranging from the family gardener to someone who digs in occasionally. She called this phase of the project ‘La Révolution des Verts de Terre,’ The Earthworms Revolution. In the Fall of 2021, another, more specific questionnaire was distributed focusing on the garden and greenery.

She asked simply, ‘What is your favorite time of year?’

Spring, according to eighty-five percent of the respondents. Even though the vegetables were not grown or ready to be picked, it was the imagination of their existence, the renewal of life in this patch of dirt, that excited the gardeners.

In other words, the yield was not as compelling as the imagination of the future of the garden. The recurrence of these sentiments influenced Anne’s notion of the Imaginary of Renewal: The act of planting is the act of having faith in the process.”

—Elmaz Abinader with Anne Brochot, “The Imaginary of Renewal: A Garden Project in France, Part I” 🌿

🔗 Read part one of “The Imaginary of Renewal” here: https://humansandnature.org/the-imaginary-of-renewal-a-garden-project-in-france-part-i

Elmaz Abinader’s recent work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, PRISM international, and Mizna and the anthologies Essential Truths, Beyond Memory and the journal Minding Nature. Her poetry collection This House, My Bones was the Editor’s Selection 2014 from Willow Books. She has a memoir: Children of the Roojme, A Family’s Journey from Lebanon and a book of poetry In the Country of My Dreams… winner of PEN Oakland. Elmaz was a co-founder of The Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA/Voices).

Self-taught, Anne Brochot approaches art as a certain poetics of the ordinary. She likes to quote the words of Robert Filliou, member of the Fluxux group in the 60s–70s: “Art is what makes life more interesting than art.” As an architect she is less interested in constructions than in the uses of “living” in the broad sense, from housing to the environment including public spaces, the place of collective life.

Image courtesy of Anne Brochot, CourCommune. 🌱

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We’re enjoying these posts as the poets and writers whose work is featured in Elementals begin to receive copies of the series. Thank you for sharing, Pyrosketchology 🧡

Elementals is the second five-volume book series published by Humans & Nature Press. The series will be released on September 3rd. Please consider pre-ordering today!

Pre-orders help our tiny Humans & Nature Press with spreading the word about the series and getting our books onto the shelves of wonderful booksellers. Pre-orders may be placed here: https://humansandnature.org/elementals

With compelling stories and insightful reflections, Elementals reveals how people are working with, adapting to, and cocreating relational depth and ecological diversity by respectfully attending to the forces that shape our everyday worlds: Earth, Air, Water, Fire. More than 90 contributors invite readers to consider the ways the elementals flow through our relations with a more-than-human world. 📚

Book design by Mere Montgomery, LimeRed. 🎨

“When I crossed through the studio on Monday, more prints of leaves graced the tables and walls, complex veiny images printed on special light paper, translucent. A forest scattered among the coffee maker and cups, the pottery, the books, and brushes. The paper, which I later learned was Chinese mulberry tree paper called wenzhou, flawlessly held the images, becoming a leaf itself.

In the course of my residency, Anne took trips to the Belgium border to work on a project with gardeners, farmers, and art. The drive was tedious, and she returned tired. I was curious: I didn’t know art, but I did know gardens, the kind my family depended upon when I was young. We tended rows of vegetables and canned everything we picked. In the rural area where I was raised, art was not a subject or a verb. In the house where I grew up, we decorated with religious icons and family portraits.

In my final days at the residency, I started to talk to Anne about her work and that conversation has been ongoing for over a year. We sat in the studio on stools drinking tea, held glasses of cider in her garden, shaded by grapevine trellises, watching cats. We rode in her little car along two-lane highways, cutting through fields of grain. Anne expanded my understanding of how artists could contribute to the world around them, both simplifying and complicating it; how organizations could be honestly and practically devoted to sustainability; I learned how Anne had become someone who once created buildings as an architect and now delves into the designs of leaves and promotes the creativity and connections between farmers and gardeners and art. The connection between art and gardens played in my imagination.”

—Elmaz Abinader with Anne Brochot, “The Imaginary of Renewal: A Garden Project in France, Part I”

Read part one of “The Imaginary of Renewal” here: https://humansandnature.org/the-imaginary-of-renewal-a-garden-project-in-france-part-i

Elmaz Abinader’s recent work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, PRISM international, and Mizna and the anthologies Essential Truths, Beyond Memory and the journal Minding Nature. Her poetry collection This House, My Bones was the Editor’s Selection 2014 from Willow Books. She has a memoir: Children of the Roojme, A Family’s Journey from Lebanon and a book of poetry In the Country of My Dreams… winner of PEN Oakland. Elmaz was a co-founder of The Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA/Voices).

Self-taught, Anne Brochot approaches art as a certain poetics of the ordinary. She likes to quote the words of Robert Filliou, member of the Fluxux group in the 60s–70s: “Art is what makes life more interesting than art.” As an architect she is less interested in constructions than in the uses of “living” in the broad sense, from housing to the environment including public spaces, the place of collective life.

🍃 Image courtesy of Anne Brochot, CourCommune.

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“When Anne Brochot works in her garden, tucked into a tiny side street in Voulx, France, she is deepening her belief that our lives and the life of the garden are interdependent. Here between the squash, herbs, and lavender, in the hay and soil, are the elements that give us sustenance, not only as producers of food and herbs, but as nourishers of our existence. ‘As vital as air,’ she has said. ‘For 500 million years, vegetation has been diversifying through its leaves, trees, and flowers. And all these forest and garden spaces that we find beautiful, deliver our oxygen, without which we can’t live for more than a few minutes.’

The garden, down a path one-half block from the Main Street of the village, was behind a green gate, next to a river. For Anne it’s a two-minute walk from CourCommune, the artist residency where Anne is the resident director and where I was spending some of the summer of 2022.”

—Elmaz Abinader with Anne Brochot, “The Imaginary of Renewal: A Garden Project in France, Part I”

Read part one of “The Imaginary of Renewal” here: https://humansandnature.org/the-imaginary-of-renewal-a-garden-project-in-france-part-i

Elmaz Abinader’s recent work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, PRISM international, and Mizna and the anthologies Essential Truths, Beyond Memory and the journal Minding Nature. Her poetry collection This House, My Bones was the Editor’s Selection 2014 from Willow Books. She has a memoir: Children of the Roojme, A Family’s Journey from Lebanon and a book of poetry In the Country of My Dreams… winner of PEN Oakland. Elmaz was a co-founder of The Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation.

Self-taught, Anne Brochot approaches art as a certain poetics of the ordinary. She likes to quote the words of Robert Filliou, member of the Fluxux group in the 60s–70s: “Art is what makes life more interesting than art.” As an architect she is less interested in constructions than in the uses of “living” in the broad sense, from housing to the environment including public spaces, the place of collective life.

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“The dream of a pristine nighttime experience comes true at Zion National Park in Utah. This wouldn’t have been possible without park officials’ efforts to preserve the night skies with the support of local government agencies and conservation groups.

Death Valley National Park, the largest national park in the contiguous United States, receives a lot of recognition for being a dark sky park, free of light pollution free. The night sky there is surreal. More than 93 percent of the park is a designated wilderness area. Starlight is the nighttime guiding light for all the species of plants and animals there that have adapted to the desert climate. However, lights from Las Vegas and Pahrump, Nevada, situated within a hundred miles of Death Valley, creep in and can still have an impact on desert nightlife.

The list of US national parks and sanctuaries certified as International Dark Sky Places continues growing in number. DarkSky International recognizes these places for their exceptional quality of starry nights and healthy nocturnal environments. These efforts, and those of many environmental activists around the globe, promise to continue preserving the night sky for future generations. As communities become aware of the detrimental effects of light pollution, they can take action to mitigate, and even reverse, the trend. The dream of having a true night sky experience in your own backyard could be a reality someday!” —Prashant Naik

🔗 Read “Lost in the Glare” here: https://humansandnature.org/lost-in-the-glare

Prashant Naik (NaikonPixels) is a photographer and writer. He specializes in environmental and technical writing in the field of information technology. As a photographer, Prashant combines his skills in creating compelling stories: “While photographs capture the essence of the scene, I use words to tell the untold stories. My photo art leans toward Mother Nature and the beauty of the night.”

Pictured: Perseid meteor shower, Zion National Park, Utah. © Prashant Naik

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