Another equinox approaches. Our chance to escape the tech bros’ ‘undiscovered country’ grows short.

There’s a cottonwood tree in a city park at Council Grove that is believed to have sprouted in 1803. The tree is massive, as one might expect, with a trunk that spreads from the ground like the pillar of an ancient cathedral. Looking up into its massive branches is like peering into an arboreal apse, […]