Nature Writing

Encounters with the Local Possum; Or, How Safety Can Hide Wonder from Us

Jarod K. Anderson Rediscovers Awe

 
By Jarod K. Anderson  May 2, 2024
Nature Writing

What Do You Get When You Cross the Contemporary Novel with Nature Writing?

By Fiona Williams  April 10, 2024
Nature Writing

“So Boundless an Affluence of Sublime Mountain Beauty…” When John Muir First Encountered Yosemite

By Dean King  March 14, 2024
Nature Writing

Walden, Freestyled: Reimagining and Reclaiming What It Means to Be Black in Nature

By Edward Moreta Jr.  December 4, 2023
Classics

How Jonathan Raban’s Passage to Juneau Decolonizes Nature Writing

By Robert Macfarlane  September 11, 2023
Nature Writing

Camille T. Dungy: Against the Isolated Nature Writer

By Lauren LeBlanc  May 3, 2023
Nature Writing

Why Learning About Other Animals Makes Us Better Writers

By Gina Chung  March 28, 2023
Nature Writing

The Problem with Calling Nature “Wild”

By Phillip Vannini and April Vannini  November 16, 2022
Nature Writing

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

By Daniel LoPilato  June 22, 2022
Nature Writing

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

By Daegan Miller  June 16, 2022
Nature Writing

Nature Writing is Survival Writing: On Rethinking a Genre

By Michelle Nijhuis  April 12, 2022
Nature Writing

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

By James R. Gaines  February 9, 2022
Nature Writing

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

By Polly Crosby  December 9, 2021
Nature Writing

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

By Tyler Green  October 7, 2021
Nature Writing

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

By Dara McAnulty  June 21, 2021
Nature Writing

Robert Macfarlane on Roger Deakin and the Origins of Wild Swimming

By Robert Macfarlane  May 26, 2021
Nature Writing

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

By Phoebe Hamilton Jones  April 14, 2021
Nature Writing

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

By Raynor Winn  April 9, 2021
Nature Writing

On the Accidental Career of E.O. Wilson

By David Quammen  March 26, 2021
Nature Writing

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

By Bjorn Dihle  February 18, 2021
Nature Writing

The Most Radical Thing
You Can Do

By Gretel Ehrlich  February 17, 2021
Nature Writing

Sylvia Plath… Nature Writer?

By Marlena Williams  October 23, 2020
Nature Writing

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

By Helen Macdonald  August 25, 2020
Nature Writing

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

By Tobias Carroll  December 11, 2019
Nature Writing

Elizabeth Rush: Atlas with Shifting Edges

By Emergence Magazine  November 18, 2019
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