Joseph Baldwin Academy - Writing Nature and Nature Writing
"Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) Essays, "History" (First Series, 1841)
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 on Nature Writing
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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
Some books that might be helpful for Quotations
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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Reference PN 6080 O95
1999
The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations - Reference PN 6081
A652 1993
Familiar Quotations (Bartlett) - Reference PN 6081 B27
1992
Some books that might be helpful for Trees -
The Encyclopedia of North American Trees - Reference QK 110
B46 2000
Firefly Encyclopedia of Trees - Reference QK 474.87 F57 2005
Databases
Here are several databases (only available on Truman network) that are good for finding information on nature writing.
Credo
Reference - Over 360 online reference titles
in all subject areas.
Try this search -
http://www.credoreference.com/shelf.do?tab=genre&filter=quotation
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.
Try this search -
Plants
Database
Ask a Librarian if you need help.