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Nature Essays and Other Short Reads

A Very Hot Year, by Bill McKibben
March 12, 2020 The New Yorker

A look at climate change and how to address it. Click Here.
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​Ecological Literacy by David Orr

"Literacy is the ability to read. Numeracy is the ability to count. Ecological literacy, according to Garrett Hardin, is the ability to ask ‘What then?’ The failure to develop ecological literacy is a sin of omission and of commission. Not only are we failing to teach the basics about the earth and how it works, but we are in fact teaching a large amount of stuff that is simply wrong. By failing to include ecological perspectives in any number of subjects, students are taught that ecology is unimportant for history, politics, economics, society, and so forth." Read David Orr's full essay HERE.​
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Essays from Down Under
These two essays are the winners of the 2019 Nature Writing Prize in Australia, presented by the Nature Conservancy with the support of the McLean Foundation. Jenny Sinclair’s An Orchard For My Father and Sue Castrique’s On the Margins of the Good Swamp were those essays.
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John Muir and the Modern Passion for Nature, by Donald Worster 

Walking, by Henry David Thoreau

Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alexander von Humbolt's Narratives  

Sea of Cortez, by John Steinbeck

The Unsettling of America, by Wendell Berry

Thinking Like a Mountain,by Aldo Leopold

​Field Notes on Science and Nature, by Michael Canfield

John Muir's 1897 Case for Saving America's Forests
  • Atlantic Monthly Article
  • Original 1897 Article by John Muir

Seeing the Natural History Way
 

The Aesthetic Roots of Natural History 
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Why Natural History Matters




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