Classics of Nature Writing


Edward Abbey
Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
Desert Solitaire
The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West


Wendell Berry
A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural
Home Economics
Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community: Eight Essays
The Long-Legged House
The Unforseen Wilderness: An Essay on Kentucky’s Red River Gorge
Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture


Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
The Sea Around Us
The Edge of the Sea


Annie Dillard
An American Childhood
Holy the Firm
The Living: A Novel
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Teaching A Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters


Greta Ehrlich
The Solace of Open Places


Loren Eisley

The Immense Journey


John Elder
Imagining the Earth: Poetry and the Vision of Nature
Reading the Mountains of Home
The Frog Run: Words and Wilderness in the Vermont Woods


Linda Hogan
Book of Medicines
Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
Intimate Nature: The Bond between Women and Animals
Mean Spirit
Sightings: The Gray Whales’ Mysterious Journey
Solar Storms: A Novel
The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World
Woman Who Watches Over the World

William Kittredge
Taking Care: Thoughts on Storytelling and Belief
Who Owns the West


Laurie Kutchins
The Night Path

Aldo Leopold
A Sand Country Almanac
Sketches Here and There


Barry Lopez
About this Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory
Artic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
Desert Notes
Crossing Open Ground
Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
Rediscovery of North America
River Notes
Winter Count

Peter Matthiessen
The Snow Leopard

John McPhee
Basin and Range
Coming into the Country
Encounters with the Archdruid
The Pine Barrens

W.S. Merwin


John Muir
A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf
My First Summer in the Sierras
Wilderness World of John Muir


Gary Paul Nabhan
Why Children Need Wild Places


Richard Nelson
The Island Within


Mary Oliver
Blue Pastures
Dream Work
The Leaf and the Cloud
New and Selected Poems
Twelve Moons
What do we know


Simon Ortiz
Earth Power Coming: Short Fiction in Native American Literature
Men on the Moon


Chet Raymo
Honey from Stone: A Naturalist’s Search for God
Natural Prayers
Skeptics and True Believers
The Path: A One-Mile Walk through the Universe
The Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage


Pattiann Rogers
Eating Bread and Honey
Firekeeper: New and Selected Poems
Song of the World Becoming: Poems New and Collected, 1981-2001
The Dream of the Marsh Wren: Writing as Reciprocal Creation


Scott Russell Sanders
The Country of Languages
The Force of Spirit
Hunting for Hope
Staying Put

Gary Snyder
Ax Handles
Mountains and Rivers Without End
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems
The Practice of the Wild: Essays
Turtle Island


Wallace Stegner
Angle of Repose
Crossing to Safety


Terry Tempest Williams
An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field
Coyote’s Canyon
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place



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