LAND GRAB

摘要

I WAS STANDING ON THE EDGE of the world, the great shimmering red-orange and bruise-colored chasm opening below me. Ravens lifted off and rode the wind, tracing the edges of the canyon's clefts and curves. In our fractured time, during which the 45th president of the United States has managed to wriggle and tweet his way into even our private thoughts, I had begun to seek refuge not just in wild places but also in the life and writings of another Republican president. As it happens, that president, our 26th, was also New York City-born, famous for eating ravenously, and known for being imperious to the point of bullying. But that,president was Mr. Trump's opposite in many other ways, one of the most striking being his attitude toward the natural world.