Sense of Place

Tag: #DukeForest

  • “No Better Than Its Woods”

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    Nicolette Cagle
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    by Nicolette L. Cagle, Ph.D., September 21, 2026, Durham, North Carolina I sit in the woods, clutching a scrap of paper carrying W. H. Auden’s words: “The trees encountered on a country stroll / Reveal a lot about a country’s soul.” I’m surrounded by thousands of acres of forest, carefully replanted and tended after agricultural…