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The big day is finally here: My long (long)-awaited book launch! Sprouting in a cranium near you...

My latest on the implications of this summer's #wildfires. Please read and share: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/o...

On seeing a tree as like a fire work and a human as like a tree. Also, my campaign to resurrect the silent ’g’ in gnarled thekinetikon.substack.com/p/gnarled

To any aspiring journos/nonfiction writers: my friend Sandy Allen—who’s written for everywhere from The Paris Review & The Believer to Esquire & Eater, to Cosmo & CN Traveler—is teaching a course on the most mysterious and dreaded task in freelancing: how to write a pitch. Enrollment closes soon!

Join @robertmoor.com and me at @mortonarboretum.bsky.social on Oct 19 for a conversation about Robert's new book, In Trees. His book is a fascinating exploration of trees and human arboreality. I'm looking forward to the conversation and hope to see you there. mortonarb.org/explore/acti...

"Although largely erased from public consciousness, Indigenous enslavement was a colossal phenomenon that spanned the entire Americas, ensnaring an estimated 3 million to 6 million Indigenous people between 1492 and 1880 from Canada to Brazil."

Happy and honored to wake up to this news!

This is *the* crucial point to keep in mind. The future is not a binary between a pure, perfect world and a ruined, apocalyptic one. As I write in my book, the future is more like a tree, w/different futures branching out in all directions. It matters profoundly which branch we end up on.

I know I keep yelling about this, but fuck, look at it. That's potentially some of the most valuable land in the country, located directly between two light-rail stations in a growing, prosperous city, and we're just going to leave a FUCKING GOLF COURSE there. It's such a travesty.

A murmuration of starlings above Sardinia, Italy. One of my favorite natural phenomena.

"Her values were clear: Pay your union dues, stand with labor, love the castaways, put money directly in people’s pockets. Make great art (and own your work). Share books freely. Uplift the land as the land has lifted and lifted you. Higher still, even. And help the people climb."

This is a really wonderful piece. Be sure to read all the way to the end, about a castaway who 'befriends' (and periodically hunts) a school of dorado, which is both delightfully bonkers and surprisingly profound.

A beautiful (arboreal!) image, but also quite foolish. Every generation, your share of genes (on average) dwindles by half. So only 1% of ‘you’ will live on in your 4th-great grandkids, & then .5%, & so on. Genetic immortality is a myth. Better to live for ‘all our relations,’ as the Lakota say.

Someone should publish a collection of all of the pieces where Aviv draws from previously unpublished private journals, to astonishing effect, and just call it “Journalism.” Instant classic.

As Canada burns, the federal government is expanding new fossil fuel projects that accelerate climate change. Yet the Carney government is using taxpayer dollars to mislead Canadians on their climate policy. (1/3)

Catch @robertmoor.com this weekend at Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts! Saturday August 15th at 10AM

I didn’t have eclipse glasses and the colander thing wasn’t working very well - then I came across a myriad of eclipses on the wall and water butts. #eclipse #solareclipse

My latest on the #wildfires burning across the Northern Hemisphere: time.com/article/2026... via TIME

Over the years I have read about treesits being used for a lot of different purposes—to save forests and halt pipelines and block new highways and stop coal mining. But using it to stop construction of the border wall is a first! ✊ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

In my book I talk about how one of Trump’s most surprising traits is that he loves trees. Specifically, he loves driving around in a limo, buying old trees from people’s yards, and them transplanting them on his golf courses. (Which is *the* most Trumpy way to love a tree, if you think about it…)

this is going to turn me into the joker

Hey check that out. In Trees, in Dutch!

this is absolutely excellent and essential, clear, as hopeful as it is urgent, and we should all demand that — to win our votes, and a future for our species — McKibben’s message here becomes core to the platform of every person in, or running for, public office: energy from heaven not from hell

TOSS YOUR PHONE INTO THE SEA

with out

The phrase "'time goes by'... is profoundly misleading. It implies that time rushes past like the wind, leaving no trace. It would be truer to say that time accretes. It gnarls, and then it gnarls around its gnarls, endlessly." @robertmoor.com's In Trees keeps giving w/ each close read. A delight.

Hard core fans of the book will be relieved to know I’ve recently been informed that Smiley’s cat, Moogins, was adopted into a loving home, and now has a brand new “catio” to hang out in as well.

It’s always wild to go to primary sources and realize how much of the surreal otherness of history is lost in the transition to secondary Like, in the annals of the south plains Coronado expedition, theres an offhand mention of a querecho buffalo hunter sharpening a flint with his teeth What!?

Kinda love the painterly texture of this fluke shot I took through my windshield with my phone, of the peculiar confluence of wildfire smoke and monsoon rains. (Zoom in.)

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

A beautiful set of branches of Archaeopteris, one of the first globally distributed trees, it's ideal for #FossilFriday!

And a reminder that while the smoke is serious, it's also just a byproduct of the main story: these fires aren't burning only in wilderness areas, they are taking people's homes.

Wrote about what I, cribbing from Baudrillard, call the "hologram"—the easily summarized subject of a book, rather than the text itself. Increasingly, instead of reading books, we are consuming holograms. This problem keeps getting worse. And with the rise of AI, it could soon become cataclysmic.

An excellent review of an excellent book!

Trump just shrunk Bears Ears by 91% and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 90%. Bears Ears was the first national monument co-managed by tribes. Five tribes spent years building that partnership. It's been walked back. 100,000+ archeological sites now exposed to mining and drilling.

OMG, it's happening! Today is the official publication date of my new book, The Earth Said Remember Me: How to Revive Our Memories and Restore the Planet

Writer David Wallace-Wells recommends IN TREES by @robertmoor.com on the @nytimes.com Opinions Podcast! Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Scan your local news today. How many stories are about something climate change is making worse...without saying so? I counted 8 of those in my feed today, vs just 1 that named climate change directly. Why does this matter? Research shows that making this connection changes how people see it.

We dropped by Stephen King’s old house in Bangor, and nearby someone has posted missing posters for a dog named Ghost