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Caspar Henderson @casparhenderson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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

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Gnarled

On moving, fast and slow

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 28/09/2026

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!

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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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...

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In Trees: A Conversation with Robert Moor | The Morton Arboretum

Hear acclaimed author Robert Moor discuss his new book In Trees: An Exploration with the Arboretum’s herbarium director, Dr. Andrew Hipp.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 11/09/2026

"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."

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 05/09/2026

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.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026

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.

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Jen , the MT liberal bird lady @liberal-jen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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

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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 27/08/2026

"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."

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 23/08/2026

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.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 22/08/2026

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.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 20/08/2026

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.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 20/08/2026

You ever seen Pluribus? That’s what I’m picturing…

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Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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)

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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 16/08/2026

The American Nightmare, that whirlpool of poverty that, once it starts sucking you down, grows ever more vicious and inescapable, eventually leading to a state of total social dislocation Dombek calls the "great loneliness," is a topic that can never be explored enough, in my opinion.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 16/08/2026

Finally got around to reading this essay, which is just...astonishingly good. Has there already been a whole round of discourse on here about how astonishingly good this essay is? (If not, we should rectify that.) harpers.org/archive/2026... @harpers.bsky.social @nplusonemag.com @longreads.com

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Night Soil, by Kristin Dombek

On love, shit, and parking

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 13/08/2026

(Oh wait I guess both of my books are collections of linked essays, each one building off another, if you look at them in a certain light. 🤔)

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 13/08/2026

I’ve often read that Eliot Weinberger’s essays in ‘An Elemental Thing’ are arranged as a spiral, though I’ve never really been able to figure out how, exactly. In Wisdom and Metaphor, Jan Zwicky also does fascinating things with pagination (pairing a source text with essays, on opposing pages).

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Hill Nadell Literary Agency @hillnadell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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

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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 06/08/2026

This is orthogonal to, well, pretty much everything, but I just wanted to point out that Berton has what might be the best author photo on all of Wikipedia. I especially love that someone took pains to credit his cat by name.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 05/08/2026

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...

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Protesters occupy 200-year-old tree at US-Mexico border to stop its destruction: ‘She’s our Statue of Liberty’

Demonstrators stage ‘tree sit’ in Arizona town to stop felling of ancient cottonwood grove to make way for border wall

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

'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)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 04/08/2026

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…)

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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

this is going to turn me into the joker

The creeping normality of AI in the life sciences

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 01/08/2026

Pretty sure it’s set in the present day (although it’s somewhat ambiguous as I recall), but this is one of the saddest (and funniest!) sad sack films I’ve seen in forever. It might just be the epitome of the genre.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

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

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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

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.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 24/07/2026

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.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Had such a blast discussing @robertmoor.com's fantastic new book In Trees at Kingston's Rough Draft bookstore last evening ...

Rob Moor and I 'on stage' at Rough Draft

Another of us two, Rob talking and me looking attentive

Rob's new book In Trees in a stack with a few of mine on top

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Michael Parks @jurassicparks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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!?

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 18/07/2026

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.)

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 18/07/2026

Some wild scenes here on the Long Island Expressway, as monsoon rains lash through the apocalyptic haze of wildfire smoke and infrastructure built for a bygone climate visibly fails.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026

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

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Mario Coiro @lepidodendron.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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

A specimen of the fossil tree Archaeopteris with particularly large leaves (around 4 cm broad)

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 16/07/2026

Was just discussing this very topic with @brdemuth.bsky.social not three days ago!

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

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.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 15/07/2026

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.

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