Lauret Savoy is a professor of environmental studies and geology at Mount Holyoke College, where she explores the intertwinings of natural and cultural histories. Her books include The Colors of Nature, Bedrock, and Living with the Changing California Coast. She lives in Leverett, Massachusetts.
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Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has... SEE MORE