ENG 385: Web Resources on Nature Writing Authors: John Smith***John James Audubon***William Bartram***Alexander Wilson***Hector St. John Crevecoeur***Indians***Ralph Waldo Emerson***Henry David Thoreau***John Muir***John Burroughs***Aldo Leopold***Mary Austin***Edward Abbey***Henry Beston***Donald Peattie***Rachel Carson***Tom Horton***Walt Whitman***Robinson Jeffers***Gary Snyder***Loren Eiseley***Stephen Jay Gould***Lewis Thomas***Robert Michael Pyle***Barbara Kingsolver****Annie Dillard***Gretel Ehrlich***Terry Tempest Williams***Barry Lopez***Simon Ortiz***Linda Hogan***bell hooks***Wendell Berry***David Abram***Rick Bass
Our major Internet resources:
ASLE [Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment]
Bibliography of Recent Works of (and on) Nature Writing
Nature.Net Join a number of discussion forums talking about nature
ECO Books: books on Environmental Issues
A Romantic Natural History (Ashton Nichols)
Wildernet Yale class web site on wilderness, with student papers: On William Byrd, on Muir and Clarence King, and on Leopold.
UVa Exhibit on LANDMARKS OF AMERICAN NATURE WRITING from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley [Dan Phillipon]
Sigurd Olson talk on "The Meaning of Wilderness" (1958)
Robert Winkler--Nature Writing A continuing series of thoughtful essays from Connecticut by Robert Winkler.
The River That Flows Uphill by William Calvin (This whole interdisciplinary book of a trip--physical and intellectual-- down the Grand Canyon, with pictures and sound, is on-line!)
In River Time: The Way of the James by Ann Woodlief
Ecology Hall of Fame (good materials on Alan Chadwick, Henry Thoreau, Rachel Carson, John Burroughs, John Muir, Aldo Leopold)General Environmental Sites:
Environmental Ethics
Index of Earth Ethics (journal)
Native Americans and the Environment
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement (Library of Congress)Ecofeminism
The Sea Within: Ecofeminism and the Perception of Water Cathy Hart (ENG 385)
Ecofeminism and Healing Ourselves, Healing the Earth Rosemary Radford Reuther
Ecofeminism on the Web
Ecofeminism Class Project (University of Southern California)Authors
Captain John Smith:
Captain John Smith (APVA history site)
"Captain John Smith." Extensive biographical essay by Dennis Montgomery.
John Smith and the Chesapeake Bay [talks of the natural state of the Bay at the time]
Smith's Map of Virginia
The General Historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles (1624) Smith's major work, although written some time after he returned to EnglandJohn James Audubon:
Audubon Society [includes Birds of America]Alexander Wilson
Alexander Wilson, American Ornithologist Biography, Books, LinksWilliam Bartram:
Profile of William Bartram.
Biography of William BartramHector St. John Crevecoeur:
Letters from an American Farmer (picture, full text by chapter)
"Negotiating Nature/Wilderness: Crèvecoeur and American Identity in Letters From an American Farmer. " Ann WoodliefIndian materials:
Standing Bear (Sioux).Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Emerson and Thoreau as Eco-Transcendentalists
Emerson on The American Transcendentalism WebHenry David Thoreau:
The Thoreau Home Page So much is here--and coming
The Thoreau Reader. Many materials and links, including readable copies of major texts.(Richard Lenat)
Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Site presents transcripts of his journal [developing]
Thoreau in The Amerian Transcendentalism Web
John Muir:
John Muir Exhibit (full site, with links to works)
"Why climb mountains? John Muir and Clarence King at a historical crossroads of American mountain climbing" (paper by Erica Goldman, Yale)John Burroughs:
The Writings of John Burroughs
John Burroughs Home
John Burroughs (Ecology Hall of Fame)Aldo Leopold:
About Aldo Leopold [good links]
Excerpts from the work of Aldo Leopold
The Aldo Leopold Wilderness
"The Transformation of Aldo Leopold" (paper by Amy McCoy, Yale)Mary Austin
"The Land of Little Rain"
Edward Abbey:
Abbey WebHenry Beston:
HenryBeston.com
Beston on Thoreau and Cape Cod (Introduction to Thoreau's Cape Cod, which is online here)
"The Romance of Cape Cod's Beach Shacks"Donald Peattie
Donald Culross Peattie: Remembering an Early Prophet (article in Chicago Wilderness by Peter Friederici)Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson Homestead Site (with links)
Rachel Carson Page (Ecology Hall of Fame)William Warner & Tom Horton:
Chapter one of Tom Horton's Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake BayWalt Whitman:
The Whitman Hypertext Archive UVa project, with complete on-line texts of all editions of Whitman's work
Whitman on the American Transcendentalism Web.Robinson Jeffers
Robinson Jeffers Association Check out articles in the archive of Jeffers Studies.
Robinson Jeffers Tor House Association Explore "Jeffers Country" in Carmel
Robinson Jeffers Short bioGary Snyder [Modern American Poetry]
Loren Eiseley:
The Man from the Sunflower Forest: A Loren Eiseley Reader
Loren Eiseley: Essayist, Philosopher, Literary Naturalist
Searching for Loren Eiseley [paper by Gene Glass]Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould: Interview and biography
"The Median Isn't the Message" [Gould on his experience with cancer]
Excerpts from the works of Stephen Jay GouldLewis Thomas
BookPage Interview with Lewis Thomas
Biography of Lewis Thomas (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Ann Woodleif)Robert Michael Pyle:
"The Local Connection"
"Nightlife with Insects" [a story by Pyle]Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver's Officlal Home Page
Kingsolver speaks on Lit Chat
Interview with David Gergen
"Stone Soup" Essay by Kingsolver in Harper'sAnnie Dillard:
Reviews and Articles on Annie Dillard (from the New York Times)
EarthSaint: Annie Dillard
Quotes from Peter Fritzell, "Composition and Decomposition at Tinker Creek" in Nature Writing and America
Annie Dillard Biography
Malcolm Lawrence 1982 Interview with Annie Dillard
"Mysticism of Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Sandra Stahlman Elliott, 5/94Gretel Ehrlich
Excerpt from Questions of Heaven: The Chinese Journeys of an American Buddhist
"The Working Landscapes of John McPhee and Gretel Ehrlich" by Kent RydenTerry Tempest Williams Site
Piercing the Heart by Margaret Regan
"The Clan of One-Breasted Women" by Williams
Statement before Senate CommitteeBarry Lopez
"A Literature of Place" Article by Lopez in OrionSimon Ortiz
Ortiz reads his poetryLinda Hogan
The Official Linda Hogan Web Site
Linda Hogan[Voices from the Gaps]bell hooks
bell hooks home pageMeridel LeSueur
Introduction to Ripening by Elaine Hedges (1982)
Meridel LeSueur: Part journalist, poet, historian, mythmaker her work sings with a lyric sweetness [Chuck Miller]Wendell Berry:
An Interview with Wendell Berry [Orion Society Magazine]
On Wendell Berry [Kentucky Writers Site}
On Berry's books [with discussion groups]David Abram
A conversation with David Abram
Articles Written by Abram
"The Ecology of Magic" [from Spell of the Sensuous]