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A Walk in the Woods With My Brain on Fire: Spring

Inside Climate News · Text and photos by David Sassoon · last updated
The season might reveal its healing powers and generosity if you look up.

Text and photos by David Sassoon

PLEASANT VALLEY, Mass.—Two visits to this wildlife sanctuary.  One week apart. I came to report the arrival of spring, an under-covered story. In the hope, too, that the new season might extinguish the fire in my brain, ablaze in the Anthropocene: The accelerating heat with its cascading catastrophes; the barbaric wars with their crimes against humanity; scorching hatreds shared instantly everywhere. Our raging modern inferno. 

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