Our latest collaboration with the prestigious poet Lucy English combines images shot on location in Cancer Alley with images of nature, especially cypress woods, which are as fragile and threatened as the communities of Cancer Alley. The images are accompanied by a poem describing what it’s like to live in small towns along the Mississippi River, between East Baton Rouge and New Orleans, which are now dominated by more than 200 chemical plants and oil refineries, sometimes located literally in residents’ backyards. Cypress trees can live for more than 1,000 years if they are not cut down for mulch or if their habitat is not destroyed. The lifespan of human beings is much shorter, but we may not survive as a species unless we stop living thinking exclusively about today and learn to think in the time scale of trees.