Margaret Renkl

I wish you could see what happens to the magnificent colors of berry and bird and flower in the slanting autumn light.

By Margaret Renkl

Hurricane Helene has reminded us. Climate change has stacked the deck against all of us.

By Margaret Renkl

You have made the most of a long life, Mr. President, serving in nearly every way imaginable as an example of moral seriousness and service to others.

By Margaret Renkl

You know something is wrong in America when beloved schoolteachers and librarians become the target of hate groups.

By Margaret Renkl

In my lowest moments, I look to the people who have devoted their lives to pursuing justice no matter what.

By Margaret Renkl

High in the boughs above us, the hackberry tree lays out its riches just as the fall migration is reaching its peak.

By Margaret Renkl

In just the past 40 years, we’ve already lost nearly half the world’s insects. Every day I am thankful to find my pollinator garden buzzing.

By Margaret Renkl

To walk past the bookcases in our family’s house is to make a different study of the history of time.

By Margaret Renkl

What we don’t know about the natural world always far exceeds what we do.

By Margaret Renkl

When art changes opinions or opens hearts, it changes the world as profoundly as any legislation does.

By Margaret Renkl