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| Earliest notable Nature writer. Wrote letters to other naturalists, "The Natural Antiquities of Selborne." |
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| Hector St. John de Crevecoeur |
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| French-born, American farmer. Wrote "Letters from an American Farmer," and "Sketches of Eighteenth Century America." Lied about bees coming back to life and snakes fighting. |
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| Wrote "Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida," Described snakes and alligators. Shot one in the head just for looking at him funny. |
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| Studied and painted birds in PA, wrote "American Ornithology; or, the Natural History of the Birds of the United States." Had a thing for woodpeckers. |
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| Similar to Gilbert White, wrote "The Journal of a Naturalist" about hedgehogs and water shrews because he had nothing better to do. |
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| Explored Canada and western U.S., wrote a "Narrative of His Explorations in Western America" about ermines, martens, wolverines, and the aurora borealis. Apparently obsessed with small mammals. |
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| Sister of William, wrote the most boring journal entries about every useless detail of her mediocre life. |
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| Famous Lewis and Clark expedition, wrote journal entries. Saved prairie dogs and shot bears. |
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| Wrote about the Amazon in "Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles." Jumped on the back of a Cayman, probably to impress the native ladies. |
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| Loved birds, but for some unknown reason decided to write about the brutal slaughter of a pair of wolves in "Ornithological Biography." Also wrote a heart-warming story about an eagle mauling a swan to death. |
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| Poor author who failed at using punctuation but used "&" a lot in "The Natural World." Wrote something about Nightengales but you can't understand any of his paragraph-long sentences. |
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| Lived among Native Americans, wrote about buffaloes. Foresaw the problems with overhunting and trading alcohol for buffalo. |
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| Famous for writing "Nature," a collection of incoherent drug-induced rants about society. Inspired Thoreau, Burroughs, Whitman, and Muir. |
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| Wrote about his Voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle, Origin of Species, Descent of Man. |
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| Wrote "Rural Hours," which is boring. |
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| Wrote about Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Walden Pond, Walking, the Maine Woods, and also wrote Journals. |
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| Wrote "Glaucus; or, the Wonders of the Shore" about marine worms, sea slugs, and other shore organisms. |
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| Famous poet. Wrote about New Jersey and Washington D.C. in "Specimen Days and Collect." Overrated. |
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| Civil War hero who travelled along Colorado River and wrote about it in "Explorating of the Colorado River of the West and its Tributaries." |
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| Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain |
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| Wrote about life on the Mississippi in "Life on the Mississippi." |
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| Wrote about a storm on her island garden in "An Island Garden." |
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| As famous as John Muir, wrote "In Mammoth Cave." |
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| Lived in/wrote about Sierra Nevada mountains. Loner and devoutly religious. "A Wind-Storm in the Forests" and "The Water-Ouzel." |
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| Wrote about feeding and befriending a pig. The only interesting story in this book. |
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| Wrote about Sierra Nevada like Muir. Talked about geology in "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada." |
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| You'd have to be wasted to understand what this guy is rambling on about. Seriously. |
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| Wrote about larks in "Out of Doors in February" and a lack of purpose in nature in "Absence of Design in Nature." |
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| Wrote about her garden in "Story of a Garden", fairy-tale quality to her writing. Entirely uninteresting. |
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| Invented "animal fiction writing." Wrote about dragging the dead body of a female wolf around to trap its mate. Real classy guy. |
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| Wrote about trying to capture a certain species of moth so that she could photograph it in "Moths of the Limberlost." |
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| Wrote about the desert in "The Land of Little Rain." |
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| Oglala Chief that wrote about the Lakato's opinion of nature. |
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| Wrote "Hampshire" and "The End of Summer." Nothing interesting about him. |
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| Wrote about Greenland in "From N by E." |
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| Wrote "The Death of the Moth." Disconnected from nature. Nature as art. |
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| Wrote about farm in Africa in "Out of Africa." |
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| Wrote "Flowery Tuscany" about flowers... in Tuscany... |
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| Wrote about slugs mating in "Unknown Eros." Was later surprised to find out that not a single person wanted to know about this subject. Also wrote about waves. |
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| World War I vet that wrote about living on the shore of Cape Cod. |
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