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| Wrote "A Sand County Almanac" about land ethic, ecology, etc. |
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| Wrote "Tarka the Otter" about an otter. Got a bad rep. from supporting Nazism. |
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| Wrote "Northern Lights" about aurora over some lake. |
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| Wrote "The Lost Woods" about not being able to find woods he visited as a child. |
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| Wrote "A Slight Sound At Evening" about Thoreau. |
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| Wrote "The Ancient People and the Newly Come" about the area she was born and her life. |
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| Wrote "A Family of Landscapes" about landscapes and human interactions with them. |
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| Wrote "The Heart of the Hunter" about ostriches and other birds in South Africa. |
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| Wrote "Silent Spring" about pesticides, and "Marginal World" about ocean shore pools. Activist that sparked environmental movement in the 60's. |
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| Wrote "The Judgment of the Birds" about birds in New York. |
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| Wrote "Glen Canyon Submersus" about Glen Canyon along the Colorado River and "Coda: Wilderness Letter" about a letter he wrote to some dude about preserving wilderness. |
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| Wrote "Death in the Open" about death and "The World's Biggest Membrane" about the atmosphere. Uses lots of commas and semicolons. Strange guy. |
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| Wrote "The Common Night" about Cape Cod at night and "The Dovekie and the Ocean Sunfish" about dovekies (little auks). |
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| Wrote "Rain and the Rhinoceros" about rain, some philosopher dude named Philoxenos, and rhinoceroses. |
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| Wrote "Moments and Journeys" about some shit in Alaska. |
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| Wrote "Beginnings" about peregrine falcons. |
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| Wrote "Gila Wilderness" about her family and New Mexico. Eco-feminist. |
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| Wrote "The Serpents of Paradise" and "The Great American Desert" about snakes, Arches National Monument, and the desert. Said he'd rather kill a man than a snake... Rugged individualist. |
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| Wrote "The Tree Where Man Was Born" about the Serengeti and "The Wind Birds" about shorebirds. |
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| Wrote "Pig Tales" about pigs. No shit. |
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| Wrote "The Bird of Paradise" about tropical birds. |
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| Wrote "Ancient Forests of the Far West" about forestry and cats? Lots of poems, easy to identify. |
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| Wrote "Under the Snow" and "A Textbook Place for Bears" about bears in NJ and PA, and "Riding the Boom Extension" about a small town established during a gold rush and some guy who brought them telephone service. |
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| Wrote "Hailing the Elusory Mountain Lion" about seeing a mountain lion for like 3 seconds. Wow. Also wrote "Thoughts on Returning to the City After Five Months on a Mountain Where the Wolves Howled" which has a title long enough that you don't need to read the actual essay. |
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| Wrote "Owning it All" about Oregon. Too long to read. |
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| Wrote "An Entrance to the Woods" about walking along river/cliffs/woods, and "The Making of a Marginal Farm" about his life on a farm. Agrarian tradition. |
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| Wrote "The Way to Rainy Mountain" about Native Americans and Rainy Mountain. |
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| Wrote "A Country Year" about her life and stuff. Too boring. |
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| Wrote "Timescape with Signpost" about islands off the coast of Ireland. |
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| Wrote "The Silence" about about science-related stuff. |
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| Wrote "The Beginner's Mind" about being new to nature writing. |
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| William Least Heat-Moon** |
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| Wrote "Under Old Nell's Skirt" about Kansas (deep mapping). Gathered information about land from different fields. |
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| Wrote "Heaven and Earth in Jest" about walking through nature by her house and God, "Living like Weasels" about weasels, and "Total Eclipse" about traveling to witness an eclipse. Random. |
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| Wrote "Wolf, Eagle, Bear: An Alaska Notebook" about that stuff and dinosaurs. |
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| Wrote "The Flora and Fauna of Las Vegas" about how unnatural Las Vegas is. Female version of Edward Abbey. |
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| Wrote "Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah" about urban nature. |
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| Wrote "The Third Eye of the Lizard" about lizards. |
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| Crazy old dog-lover who wrote "Calling Animals by Name" about naming animals. Probably dressed them up in stupid outfits too. Not even nature writing. |
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| Wrote "Big Grass" about prairie grass. |
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| Wrote "Weeds Are Us" about weeds. Dude who was in Food, Inc. |
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| Wrote "Black Women and the Wilderness" about her fear of the outdoors and racial tensions. |
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| Wrote "High Tide in Tucson" about hermit crabs, oysters, etc. that she found in the Bahamas. |
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| Wrote "The Clan of One-Breasted Women" about her families history of breast cancer and its possible ties to nuclear testing in Utah. |
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| Wrote "The Ecology of Magic" about magic. |
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| Wrote "The Ninemile Wolves" about wolves in Montana. |
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| Wrote "The End of Nature" about human impacts on nature. Not very optimistic about the future. |
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| Wrote "Baldwins" about different kinds of apples. |
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| Wrote "The Gifts" about hunting and Alaska natives. Liked playing with dead animals a little too much. |
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