Joseph Baldwin Academy - Writing Nature and Nature Writing
"No doubt there always will be some people willing to do anything at all that is economically or technologically possible, who look upon the world and its creatures without affection and therefore as exploitable without limit. Against that limitlessness, in which we foresee assuredly our ruin, we have only our ancient effort to define ourselves as human and humane." - Wendell Berry, Jefferson Lecture, April 2012
Websites
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Google Image Search - Nature Photography
Google Earth - Application on your Start Menu
Books - Library Catalog
Check the Truman State University Library Catalog for books on "nature writing" or for particular authors you are interested in. You can also use subject searches such as the ones listed below.
Nature in Literature
Landscapes in Literature
Natural History - Outdoor Books
Some books that might be helpful -
Nature writing: the pastoral impulse in America -
General Collection PS163 S34 1996
Best American science and nature writing, 2003 - General
Collection Q1 B47 2003
The Norton book of nature writing - General Collection QH81
N67 1990
Natural state: a literary anthology of California nature
writing - General Collection QH105 C2 N425 1998
Databases
Here are several databases (only available on Truman network) that are good for finding information on nature writing.
American West - A collection of digitized sources from the the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago.
Credo Reference - Over 360 online reference titles in all subject areas.
Academic Search Premier - A multi-disciplinary database that provides full text for more than 4,600 journals.
JSTOR. - Archive of scholarly journals. These are full-text articles
ebrary - The Academic Complete Collection from ebrary offers online, full-text access to over 70,000 titles in all academic subject areas.
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