𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫
@robertmoor.com
essayist, journalist, wandering-around-and-looking-at-stuff-ist
books: On Trails; (upcoming) In Trees.
magazine work: The New Yorker, Outside, NYMag, New York Times Book Review, Emergence, Lapham's Quarterly, n+1, Granta
website: robertmoor.com
books: On Trails; (upcoming) In Trees.
magazine work: The New Yorker, Outside, NYMag, New York Times Book Review, Emergence, Lapham's Quarterly, n+1, Granta
website: robertmoor.com
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Eight years ago, I drove to Sag Harbor and sat down for tea with Maria Matthiessen, telling her I wanted to write a book about her late husband, Peter. She warned me against it: a Sisyphean task! I pushed on anyway. (Maria was right.) And today, miraculously, is publication day for TRUE NATURE.
October 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Eight years ago, I drove to Sag Harbor and sat down for tea with Maria Matthiessen, telling her I wanted to write a book about her late husband, Peter. She warned me against it: a Sisyphean task! I pushed on anyway. (Maria was right.) And today, miraculously, is publication day for TRUE NATURE.
This is one of the sharpest, most thoughtful adventure memoirs I’ve read in years. Reminded me of McPhee’s Coming Into The Country, but written in a time of melting glaciers and melting brains.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ben-w...
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ben-w...
North to the Future
Hailed as a “worthy successor” to John McPhee (Kirkus Reviews), Ben Weissenbach —a digital native with little prior wilderness experience—embarks on ...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
July 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This is one of the sharpest, most thoughtful adventure memoirs I’ve read in years. Reminded me of McPhee’s Coming Into The Country, but written in a time of melting glaciers and melting brains.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ben-w...
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ben-w...
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🧵 I see my book Becoming Earth as one part of a larger emerging movement: a resurgence of holistic, planetary-scale thinking; an evolving Gaia as a modern coevolutionary framework for understanding Earth; and a renewed recognition of the animacy, agency, and rights of more-than-human living systems
June 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
🧵 I see my book Becoming Earth as one part of a larger emerging movement: a resurgence of holistic, planetary-scale thinking; an evolving Gaia as a modern coevolutionary framework for understanding Earth; and a renewed recognition of the animacy, agency, and rights of more-than-human living systems
This is the kind of review every good author dreams of one day receiving—deep, careful, tough, but ultimately geared not toward scoring cheap points but rather toward illuminating the dark spaces between the sentences and the author’s corpus as a whole. A real feat.
I spent the spring reading through Robert Macfarlane's catalog to understand his remarkable new book, *Is a River Alive?* @literaryhub.bsky.social let me go long on the book that I think Macfarlane has spent his entire life writing toward. #nature #writing #booksky
lithub.com/the-world-is...
lithub.com/the-world-is...
The World is Alive; or, How Robert Macfarlane Came to Trust His Senses
“While writing about landscape often begins in the aesthetic, it must always end in the ethical.” –Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks * There is a sentence 256 pages into Robert Macfarlane’s newest book,…
lithub.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This is the kind of review every good author dreams of one day receiving—deep, careful, tough, but ultimately geared not toward scoring cheap points but rather toward illuminating the dark spaces between the sentences and the author’s corpus as a whole. A real feat.
I finished this book two weeks ago and have been thinking about it ever since—a brilliant, turbulent, troubling feat of planetary writing.
There are passages in here that will freeze the air in your chest, and ideas that will crack your dead, calcified heart right open.
There are passages in here that will freeze the air in your chest, and ideas that will crack your dead, calcified heart right open.
May 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I finished this book two weeks ago and have been thinking about it ever since—a brilliant, turbulent, troubling feat of planetary writing.
There are passages in here that will freeze the air in your chest, and ideas that will crack your dead, calcified heart right open.
There are passages in here that will freeze the air in your chest, and ideas that will crack your dead, calcified heart right open.
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A big deal. And if you want to understand how a bunch of Virginians re-engineered Dominion's incentives such that building the country's biggest offshore wind project made more sense than building Appalachia's biggest fossil gas pipeline, I've got a book for you...
Dominion Energy's Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project is “months away from first delivery of electricity to customers in early 2026” and on schedule for full completion by the end of next year, according to the utility's CEO: www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... via @fieseler.bsky.social 🔌💡
Massive Virginia offshore wind project presses on with construction
Dominion said its wind project, the largest under construction in the U.S, will be completed on time — a bright spot for an industry facing turbulence.
www.canarymedia.com
May 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
A big deal. And if you want to understand how a bunch of Virginians re-engineered Dominion's incentives such that building the country's biggest offshore wind project made more sense than building Appalachia's biggest fossil gas pipeline, I've got a book for you...
@bsaxifrage.bsky.social Love your work. I have a quick q: when you write “the number one use of harvested wood in Canada is burning it for energy”—is this a reference to firewood to heat homes, or wood-pellet/biomass power plants? Or both combined? And of the two, which emits more net c02 annually?
April 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
@bsaxifrage.bsky.social Love your work. I have a quick q: when you write “the number one use of harvested wood in Canada is burning it for energy”—is this a reference to firewood to heat homes, or wood-pellet/biomass power plants? Or both combined? And of the two, which emits more net c02 annually?
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When it comes to climate change, industrial logging in Canada is part of the problem, not the solution.
"Billions of tonnes of CO2 that were locked away in the forest have already drained back out on the backs of logging trucks and in the swirling smoke of ever more monstrous wildfires," Barry Saxifrage writes.
#deforestation #climatechange
#deforestation #climatechange
Canada is opening the floodgates on one of Earth’s greatest living reservoirs of CO2
Canada’s forest is in trouble – and so are we. Chainsaws and fossil fuel burning are draining billions of tonnes of CO2 out of our managed forest and pouring it back into the atmosphere. And the…
www.nationalobserver.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
When it comes to climate change, industrial logging in Canada is part of the problem, not the solution.
People all over the world—in Japan, Germany, Australia, and the US—have begun asking a simple question:
Why be buried in a traditional cemetery, when your body can be placed in a forest instead?
My latest, for @outsidemag.bsky.social
www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...
Why be buried in a traditional cemetery, when your body can be placed in a forest instead?
My latest, for @outsidemag.bsky.social
www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...
How to Be Reborn as a Tree
By choosing to be laid to rest beneath a tree, families create living memorials that honor their loved ones and the planet.
www.outsideonline.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
People all over the world—in Japan, Germany, Australia, and the US—have begun asking a simple question:
Why be buried in a traditional cemetery, when your body can be placed in a forest instead?
My latest, for @outsidemag.bsky.social
www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...
Why be buried in a traditional cemetery, when your body can be placed in a forest instead?
My latest, for @outsidemag.bsky.social
www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...
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I was searching for the Thoreau passage when he lost his marbles on Mt Katahdin, and look what I found! This old gem from @robertmoor.bsky.social, which evidently I republished ages ago. I feel like an ouroboros ...
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2016-...
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2016-...
When Thoreau Went Nuts on Maine’s Mt. Katahdin
An excerpt from the new book, On Trails.
www.sierraclub.org
March 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I was searching for the Thoreau passage when he lost his marbles on Mt Katahdin, and look what I found! This old gem from @robertmoor.bsky.social, which evidently I republished ages ago. I feel like an ouroboros ...
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2016-...
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2016-...
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I think most of who have worked in writing or entertainment know that piracy is a fact of life, and has been for a long time now.
But there’s a difference between a broke student downloading a PDF of your book, and a multibillion dollar company stealing your work for its own bullshit purposes.
But there’s a difference between a broke student downloading a PDF of your book, and a multibillion dollar company stealing your work for its own bullshit purposes.
Search the LibGen database here, and peer inside a pirated library of millions of books and research papers used by Meta and others:
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I think most of who have worked in writing or entertainment know that piracy is a fact of life, and has been for a long time now.
But there’s a difference between a broke student downloading a PDF of your book, and a multibillion dollar company stealing your work for its own bullshit purposes.
But there’s a difference between a broke student downloading a PDF of your book, and a multibillion dollar company stealing your work for its own bullshit purposes.
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This is an abysmal, brutally reverse-engineered instance of mega-corp fossil-fuel lawfare waged against Greenpeace.
It’s a strategic takedown of a deep-rooted, rare-growing force for good on Earth.
A(nother) desperate day for justice and the planet.
It’s a strategic takedown of a deep-rooted, rare-growing force for good on Earth.
A(nother) desperate day for justice and the planet.
Absolute destruction of the First Amendment to enable absolute destruction of a habitable planet.
Greenpeace ordered to pay Dakota Access Pipeline operator $667 million in case that could destroy the group
A North Dakota jury awarded $667 million in damages to Energy Transfer, the company that runs the Dakota Access Pipeline, after finding Greenpeace liable in a high-stakes defamation case.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This is an abysmal, brutally reverse-engineered instance of mega-corp fossil-fuel lawfare waged against Greenpeace.
It’s a strategic takedown of a deep-rooted, rare-growing force for good on Earth.
A(nother) desperate day for justice and the planet.
It’s a strategic takedown of a deep-rooted, rare-growing force for good on Earth.
A(nother) desperate day for justice and the planet.
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Word of the day is ‘cumber-world’ (14th century): a person or thing that encumbers the planet.
February 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Word of the day is ‘cumber-world’ (14th century): a person or thing that encumbers the planet.
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If activist Zain Haq is deported to Pakistan on Saturday, Canada would become the first country in the world to deport a non-violent climate protester, says federal Green Party Leader Elizabeth May #ClimateActivism #Canada #InternationalJustice #ZainHaq www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/20/n...
Green Party Leader asks federal ministers to delay climate activist's looming deportation
If activist Zain Haq is deported to Pakistan on Saturday, Canada would become the first country in the world to deport a non-violent climate protester, says federal Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.
www.nationalobserver.com
January 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If activist Zain Haq is deported to Pakistan on Saturday, Canada would become the first country in the world to deport a non-violent climate protester, says federal Green Party Leader Elizabeth May #ClimateActivism #Canada #InternationalJustice #ZainHaq www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/20/n...
Great little thread. Some may have missed the odd fact that a black pastor at DJT’s inauguration just passingly referenced one of the most strikingly racist monuments in the US: Stone Mountain, Georgia.
There are layers of history and irony hidden within this one phrase, which Cotlar unpeels.
There are layers of history and irony hidden within this one phrase, which Cotlar unpeels.
January 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Great little thread. Some may have missed the odd fact that a black pastor at DJT’s inauguration just passingly referenced one of the most strikingly racist monuments in the US: Stone Mountain, Georgia.
There are layers of history and irony hidden within this one phrase, which Cotlar unpeels.
There are layers of history and irony hidden within this one phrase, which Cotlar unpeels.
It’s worse than most folks realize. Since last Sept, journos in Canada haven’t been able to post *any* links to their own work on FB, bc the gov passed a (sensible) law that Meta must share some of the profit it makes off those links, & Zuck threw a tantrum.
Corporate greed, strangling journalism.
Corporate greed, strangling journalism.
If you’re a writer, it is just ridiculous to deal with any platform engaging in link throttling.
January 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
It’s worse than most folks realize. Since last Sept, journos in Canada haven’t been able to post *any* links to their own work on FB, bc the gov passed a (sensible) law that Meta must share some of the profit it makes off those links, & Zuck threw a tantrum.
Corporate greed, strangling journalism.
Corporate greed, strangling journalism.
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“Lynch enters nightmare worlds like the Eagle Scout he was, as inquisitive about the depths of human psychology as he is about bugs and twigs.”
January 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
“Lynch enters nightmare worlds like the Eagle Scout he was, as inquisitive about the depths of human psychology as he is about bugs and twigs.”
I would kill to know what happened in the three days between these two tweets.
January 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I would kill to know what happened in the three days between these two tweets.
Debord put his finger on this problem all the way back in the 60s. Isolation—or more specifically, thinner and thinner forms of connection, resulting in “lonely crowds”—is central to the workings of capitalism.
Car culture is one (esp damaging) example of this phenomenon. Screen culture is another.
Car culture is one (esp damaging) example of this phenomenon. Screen culture is another.
January 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Debord put his finger on this problem all the way back in the 60s. Isolation—or more specifically, thinner and thinner forms of connection, resulting in “lonely crowds”—is central to the workings of capitalism.
Car culture is one (esp damaging) example of this phenomenon. Screen culture is another.
Car culture is one (esp damaging) example of this phenomenon. Screen culture is another.
Every once in a blue moon you run across a piece of writing that has clearly taken years and years and years to write—years of not just work but of *life*. A piece of the writer’s very soul.
This is one such piece. It’s brilliant, and it’s chilling.
Award committees, take note.
This is one such piece. It’s brilliant, and it’s chilling.
Award committees, take note.
My magnum opus for the Believer on electroshock, both in society and in pop culture. A piece I started reporting back in 2017 and frankly still feel astonished is actually out there. www.thebeliever.net/a-brilliant-...
A Brilliant Cure but We Lost the Patient - Believer Magazine
A shock survivor I knew years ago—an activist I’d flown out West to meet because I was writing a profile of her—showed me a tattoo she had on the back of her neck. She turned away from me, on the benc...
www.thebeliever.net
January 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Every once in a blue moon you run across a piece of writing that has clearly taken years and years and years to write—years of not just work but of *life*. A piece of the writer’s very soul.
This is one such piece. It’s brilliant, and it’s chilling.
Award committees, take note.
This is one such piece. It’s brilliant, and it’s chilling.
Award committees, take note.
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I'm currently reading @ferrisjabr.bsky.social's Becoming Earth and it's brilliant. Packed with eye-opening stories about how life made the Earth as we know it, each tale beautifully told
As of this week, my debut book BECOMING EARTH is five months old! I’m feeling so grateful for everything that has happened since its publication and I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge, appreciate, and reflect on it all 🧵
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623907...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623907...
Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr: 9780593133972 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A vivid account of a major shift in how we understand Earth, from an exceptionally talented new voice. Earth is not simply an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather a planet that came to l...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
December 6, 2024 at 5:53 PM
I'm currently reading @ferrisjabr.bsky.social's Becoming Earth and it's brilliant. Packed with eye-opening stories about how life made the Earth as we know it, each tale beautifully told
Another great list. Just discovered a whole bushel of beloved writers that I didn’t know had already migrated here…
Looking for the best #naturewriters?
Check out this pack to get you started with storytellers, poets, science communicators, podcasters, nonfiction writers and more, who weave wild words to show us the magic of nature and a planet worth protecting
We are at 134 and counting…
go.bsky.app/Qrw2zj9
Check out this pack to get you started with storytellers, poets, science communicators, podcasters, nonfiction writers and more, who weave wild words to show us the magic of nature and a planet worth protecting
We are at 134 and counting…
go.bsky.app/Qrw2zj9
December 5, 2024 at 3:47 AM
Another great list. Just discovered a whole bushel of beloved writers that I didn’t know had already migrated here…
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Books are the best gifts. Highly recommend CROSSINGS for all your ecology-minded friends - or anyone who wants to think philosophically about hitting bugs on the highway. 🦋
Bluesky holiday special! I have a big ol' stack of bookplates that I'd love to sign & personalize for you. Reply or repost w/ proof of purchase for CROSSINGS—a best book of '23 per the NYT et al, winner of awards, recently out in paperback—and I'll hook ya up. Grateful for this community's support!
December 3, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Books are the best gifts. Highly recommend CROSSINGS for all your ecology-minded friends - or anyone who wants to think philosophically about hitting bugs on the highway. 🦋
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An early reminder to apply for the Matthew Power award, which provides $12,500 to support a longform journalism project. Deadline is February 19: journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/awa...
Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award - NYU Journalism
Matthew Power was an award-winning journalist who reported empathetically on the human […]
journalism.nyu.edu
December 2, 2024 at 7:04 PM
An early reminder to apply for the Matthew Power award, which provides $12,500 to support a longform journalism project. Deadline is February 19: journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/awa...
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It was a honor and pleasure to edit this whole volume, and especially Sohini's fabulous prose poem. Definitely check it out (and marvel at the layout folks who were able to reproduce the spatial layout of Sohini's text).
ELEMENTALS is a 5-book project from Humans & Nature Press. Series eds Gavin Van Horn & Bruce Jennings.
My piece AN ELEGY WITH HOLES (FOR THE INSECTS TO COME AND GO) is part of AIR edited with kindness by @daeganmiller.bsky.social
Link: humansandnature.org/elementals/
Holiday gifting ideas :)
My piece AN ELEGY WITH HOLES (FOR THE INSECTS TO COME AND GO) is part of AIR edited with kindness by @daeganmiller.bsky.social
Link: humansandnature.org/elementals/
Holiday gifting ideas :)
December 2, 2024 at 12:46 PM
It was a honor and pleasure to edit this whole volume, and especially Sohini's fabulous prose poem. Definitely check it out (and marvel at the layout folks who were able to reproduce the spatial layout of Sohini's text).