Nature Writing

Why Learning About Other Animals Makes Us Better Writers

Gina Chung on How Bats, Octopuses, and Other Animals Helped Her Better Understand Humanity

 
By Gina Chung  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
Nature Writing

We Learned to Fear Tiger and to Love Squirrel

By Emergence Magazine  November 11, 2019
Nature Writing

Speaking the Anthropocene: An Interview with Robert Macfarlane

By Emergence Magazine  November 4, 2019
Nature Writing

Wear Your Stillness As Disguise: On Sitting Still in Nature

By Simon Barnes  October 4, 2019
Nature Writing

Meditations on a Passing Eagle, and the Beauty of Desolation

By Kathleen Jamie  September 24, 2019
Nature Writing

The Life-Changing Magic of Mushroom Hunting in Central Park

By Long Litt Woon  July 2, 2019
Nature Writing

The Weirdness, Wonder, and Terror of the Contemporary Zoo

By Molly Reid  June 19, 2019
Nature Writing

Why Are We Driven to Explore the Very Depths of This Earthly Abyss?

By Robert Macfarlane  June 18, 2019
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