Directory of Nature Writing Resources

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While precise definitions of nature writing vary, it is generally agreed that it is nonfiction prose in which the narrator observes nature without sentimentality or personification.

Subcategories

• Abbey, Edward
• Bass, Rick
• Dickinson, Emily
• Dillard, Annie
• Duncan, David James
• Goldsmith, Oliver
• Krutch, Joseph Wood
• McCarthy, Cormac
• McPhee, John
• Nabhan, Gary Paul
• Quammen, David
• Snyder, Gary
• Thoreau, Henry David
• Whitman, Walt
• Williams, Terry Tempest

Resources in This Category

• Nature Study, Nature Writing: Past and Present

  http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/SciRefGuides/nature.html
  Brief bibliography by the Library of Congress.

• Naturewriting

  http://www.naturewriting.com/
  An online magazine for readers and writers of nature writing. Poems, essays, and journals submitted by readers. Plus quotations, techniques, and ideas for writing. "You are Nature...Writing."

• The Spirit of Butterflies: Myth, Magic, and Art

  http://spiritofbutterflies.com/
  An inspiring book on butterflies and their significance in religion, mythology, superstition, literature, and the arts.

 

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