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Nature Writing

“so boundless an affluence of sublime mountain beauty…” when john muir first encountered yosemite.

Dean King on the Great American Wanderer’s Experience of the Sierra Nevadas

Passage to Juneau Decolonizes Nature Writing">How Jonathan Raban’s Passage to Juneau Decolonizes Nature Writing

Camille T. Dungy: Against the Isolated Nature Writer

Why Learning About Other Animals Makes Us Better Writers

The Problem with Calling Nature “Wild”

Words of Hope, and a Defense of John Muir: Kim Stanley Robinson on His Love of the Sierra Nevadas

All Tomorrow’s Fables: How Do We Write About This Vanishing World?

Nature Writing is Survival Writing: On Rethinking a Genre

How Rachel Carson Carved Out a Space to Become a Full-Time Writer

Secrets of the Sea: On the Hidden Past of Orford Ness and the Residue of Human Destruction

How the Word “Landscape” Helped Change Americans’ Relationship to Nature

Activist, Naturalist, Teenager: From the Diaries of Dara McAnulty

Robert Macfarlane on Roger Deakin and the Origins of Wild Swimming

On the Literature of Rewilding… and the Need to Rewild Literature

On the Necessary (and Inevitable) Rise of the Nature Memoir: A Reading List

On the Accidental Career of E.O. Wilson

The Struggle to Define Wilderness: On Encountering John Muir in Bear Country

You Can Do">The Most Radical Thing You Can Do

Sylvia Plath… Nature Writer?

Helen Macdonald: The Things I Tell Myself When I’m Writing About Nature

(in a Time of Disaster)">How to Write with Optimism About Nature (in a Time of Disaster)

Elizabeth Rush: Atlas with Shifting Edges

We Learned to Fear Tiger and to Love Squirrel

Speaking the Anthropocene: An Interview with Robert Macfarlane

Wear Your Stillness As Disguise: On Sitting Still in Nature

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