"First comprehensive overview of urban growth" in the West.

This book analyzes "the patriarchal texts of meat" (14), provides "a feminist history of vegetarianism" (15), and explores the relationship between feminism and animal rights theory. Bibliography.

Account of year in Minnesota and Wisconsin and the rhythms of small-town life as they relate to the seasons and the natural world.

Traces the history of American nature religion, discussing Native religions, "republican" religion, transcendentalism, nineteenth century physical religion, and twentieth century manifestations. Bibliographical essay.

"Record of natural observation and conceptual ecology."

"Elegantly chronicles not only the changes wrought on the desert by people, but also the ability of the desert to recover and rejuvenate."

"Offers a cohesive intellectual framework for ecology" (9) and "investigate(s) the richness of character of the objects of study" (10), including ecosystem, community, organism, population, and biosphere.

Berry's poetry read in light of a Virgilian Georgic tradition of pastoral. Emphasizes his Calvinist work ethic, sustainability, & stewardship in the poems.

Study of ancient archetype in Western European Folklore, literature, art, and architecture "signif[ying] irrepressible life" and "the union of humanity and the vegetable world." Bibliography.

Poems, short stories, essays, novel excerpts, journal entries, autobiography, natural history by nineteeenth-and twentieth-century American women. Annotated bibliography.

Early settlement of frontier Ohio and cultural attitudes toward the land.

Claims Momaday's book meets all requirements of Perry Anderson's "model for the modernist social conjecture," though it "differs in important ways from Anderson's modernist paradigm."

This study proposes a new scientific paradigm based on chaos theory and evolutionary epistemology, providing "an alternative to both metaphysical closure and deconstructive demystification" (6). Bibliography.

Thirty-one literary and philosophical contributions discuss green Buddhism, perception, extended mind, becoming Sangha, the sentience of Earth, and calls to action. Illustrations.

Poem personifying a vine.

"Numerous excerpts from her ten books and more than one hundred articles, all describing joyfully the pleasures of studying live birds."

A collection of articles, poems and impressions about E. T. Seton's Woodcraft organization and its revival. Includes contact addresses.

Although Cather's characters attach physically and emotionally to place in Nebraska, they are also pulled back to European roots and forward to modern materialism.

Essays by thirteen geographers represent a post-structuralist view of geographical description and "explore the dynamics of power in the representation of landscape." Bibliography.

This book about moments of harmony between nature and culture focuses on the Lewis and Clark expedition and the creation of city parks. Bibliographical essay.

Excerpts from a work in progress on winter homesteading in Montana's backcountry.

Essays.

Story of Montana's Ninemile wolf pack, a group of pups abandoned by their mother.

This book's three sections ("The Teachings," "The Practice," and "Meeting the Global Crisis") include ten articles by Buddhists from around the world. Illustrations.

A "rereading" of Wordsworth's poetry of nature as a hallmark of Romanticism's involvement in things environmental. A "preliminary sketch towards a literary ecocriticism."

Describes "a cultural and historical paradigm" which established "romantic naturalism," especially in the works of Rachel Carson, Loren Eisley, E. B. White, and Annie Dillard.

Using Lukacs, Frye, and the Bible, Becker defines poetry such that Gould's essays, despite his disclaimers, can legitimately be called poetic. Bibliography.

Judge Bedsworth writes about enforcing California's tough hazardous-waste laws.

Poems, short stories, and essays by nineteenth-and twentieth-century British and American writers who "observed acutely, thought deeply, and wrote artfully" about the natural world.

Analyzes writings about landscape gardens in an attempt "to demonstrate the continuing role" of these gardens "as a public site for competing cultural interests" (379).

Anthology of essays that "demonstrate how the concept of nature is invoked and constituted in a wide range of cultural projects." Variety of critical approaches.

Suggests that Stegner's "promised land" of myth and dream has moved back East, his love of place drawn to the renewed wilderness of Vermont.

Describes encounters with owls, wolves, condors, panthers, ferrets, sparrows, whales, and other endangered animals. Calls for "a rethinking of our relationships with animals" (10). Bibliography.

An undercover journalist participates in a "bust" of bird smugglers. Discusses the illegal trade of pet birds and calls for legislation and captive breeding.

The author's encounter with manatees leads him to consider "the way that perceptual metaphors and cultural images define our relationships with nature" (25).

These fourteen essays about the author's work in Australia and elsewhere blend "art, literature, science, and scholarship" (xiv). Annotated bibliography.

Essays, on topics including farming, computers, Ed Abbey, Huck Finn, community.

This collection investigates ecological issues in the light of Christian scripture and ethics, including some "third world" and unorthodox religious perspectives.

Surveys aboriginal environmental management techniques in California by studying anthropological, ethnographic, and biological sources.

Includes Ann Zwinger and Gretel Ehrlich.

A "Specifically Feminist' reading of Oliver; examines how the natural world is attended to, and constructed, beyond the scope of patriarchal language and culture.

Journal entries about the flora and fauna around the author's hillside home in Pennsylvania. A "love song about the place and season" she loves best.

Narrates the stories of 25 women naturalists from the late 18th century to today.

This book, "an account of one man's seeing and thinking and his attempts at understanding" (xi), traces the seasons from a hillside farm in Connecticut.

Thirteen articles about species diversity, agriculture, values, pollution, market mechanisms. Contributors include E.O. Wilson, David Ehrenfeld, William Goldfarb, Thomas Eisner, and Wes Jackson. Bibliography.

55 poets selected from The Amicus Journal, a publication of the National Resources Defence Council.

These twelve scholarly essays explore the causes of the current environmental crisis and propose a new understanding of our relationship to the rest of nature.

A study of the "Deep Cut" passages, which "reveal something of the passage from the unconscious to the conscious in the creative process" (3). Bibliography.

Profile of Earth First! co-founder Dave Foreman, with considerable mention of writers Ed Abbey, Doug Peacock, and others.

Essays from the Southwest.

Essay on Cabeza de Vaca, occasioned by Columbian quincentennial.

Essays by a botanist about the Rincon mountains and the Sonoran desert.

Essays by a botanist.

History of the emergence/development of the environmental sciences in Western culture, science's acquistion of authority and the changing values signaled by ecology and environmentalism. Bibliographical essay.

A Christian theologian proposes a "postmodern" worldview, spirituality, and ethic to deal with the environmental crisis. Bibliography.

Considers prose of Carlyle and Emerson "against the background of similarly notable, similarly nuanced, and even 'pre-Romantic prose of the mid-eighteenth century" (4). Bibliography.

A collection of myths, stories and commentaries about Coyote, including translations by anthropologists and original works by Native and non-Native storytellers. Bibliography.

First volume of autobiography. Bibliography.

Second volume of autobiography -- "offers his prescription for peace and security in a sustainable society." Bibliography.

20 essays, otherwise unavailable, focusing on Southwestern forests and hunting.

This essay is about the author's father's farm in New England. Four sections: "Where We Are," "Apples," "Walnuts," "Winter."

Reveals how Abbey's tale of the "indomitability of nature in the face of destructive, mechanical human activity" draws heavily on many literary traditions and works.

Belying self-proclamations as a straightforward and unsophisticated writer, Abbey's Desert Solitaire reveals considerable philosophical and artistic sophistication, underlining the themes of his subsequent works.

Studies the "individual motifs common to the work of all three writers" in order to "correct the misimpressions created by the classics and their critics."

New anthology of essays by John Burroughs.

Originally published as Horry and the Waccamaw, Norton, 1992.

Explores a number of Stegner's works in which machine and garden are juxtaposed in a modern, critical pastoral vision.

"[E]xplores six current approaches to the study of mind: the neuroscientific, the behavioral-experimental, the competence approach, the ecological, the phenomenological, and the computational" (vii).

Author deconstructs text focusing on the textuality of the river, fly-fishing, narrrative, and Bible.

John Nichols, Farley Mowat, Bill McKibben, Barry Lopez, and China Galland respond to the question, "Is the environment going to go away?"

Excerpt from eponymous novel, winner of 1993 Edward Abbey Ecofiction Award.

Analyzes Thoreau's theory of rhetoric, especially his thoughts on eloquence as incompatible with his study of Whately's psychological rhetoric.

Entire issue devoted to nature writing: essays, fiction, book reviews, poetry, artwork.

This introductory essay to a nature-writing issue of the journal deals with Cape Cod and the vulnerability of the natural world.

Historical discussion of attitudes toward hunting and nature in general. Includes religious, economic, social, and political perspectives. Extensive bibliography.

Claims the frontier is not closed, but is "open to American writers who take to the road in an attempt to recreate the frontier experience."

Examines the social and cultural relationships between captivity romances and narratives and the "more traditionally 'feminine' genres" in the context of "'mainstream' American literature."

Castleman discusses multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), a controversial disease some experts claim is caused by environmental factors such as air pollution, household cleaners and processed foods.

While floating down the Amur River, Caufield discusses the plants and creatures that live there as well as the industrial development which threatens the river.

The 1981 edition includes three essays ("Words," "Sentences," and "Portions") which approach Walden as an early work of American philosophy. Includes two essays on Emerson.

Author makes connections of intertextual dependency between three writers. Literary knowledge influences our experience in nature. Discusses impact of Nature/culture on text.

This book proposes an environmental ethic based on sustainability and offers suggestions for implementing this ethic through personal, governmental, and corporate action. Annotated bibliography.

Traces the life of the anthropologist and nature writer from his Nebraska childhood until his death in 1977. Includes discussions of major works. Bibliography.

A history of the Stowe gardens of England, with special attention paid to changes in landscape and moving of buildings in the eighteenth century.

Selections from and discussions of American nature writing classics from 1584 to 1907. Volumes II and III focus on the nineteenth century. Bibliography.

Applies ecological and psychological principles to remind us that "ecological destruction ultimately begins from within the child...with the loss of imagination."

A comparison of "the aesthetics of the Great Chain of Being and the aesthetics of an emergent Great Web of Being."

Focuses on the cultural landscape, including architectural legacies of ethnic groups and impact of agriculture, deforestation, and industry on the natural landscape. Photographs, maps, bibliography.

In spite of efforts from environmentalists, Chile's endangered alerce tree -- an ancient conifer coveted for its fine-grained, water-resistant wood -- continues to be illegally harvested.

Interviews with such writers as Edward Abbey, N. Scott Momady, Rudolofo Anaya, Paula Gunn Allen, Denise Chavez, Pat Mora, and others.

Presidential Address at the Second General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society, 13 June 1991; overview of Merton's writing about the song of creation, Genesis 1 and 2, and human abuse of nature.

A study of Merton's sense of place, commitment to solitude, and his response to the physical geography of New Mexico.

Prominent green economist explains the economics of sustainability and explodes the orthodox "progrowth" alternative.

Considers how Rawlings's language shows "nature as a place of learning," with man part of the ecological community and "subject to the vicissitudes of nature."

Literary essays on such topics as wilderness, monkeywrenching, dams, old-growth forests, mortality, and the ethical dilemma of rats in the house.

Describes the negative effects dams along the Columbia and Snake Rivers have had on salmon populations.

"Traces the shift from 'Lord' to 'Witness' in Emerson, Thoreau, John Burroughs, and Annie Dillard," focusing primarily on "the 'questions' these writers bring to nature."

An examination of "some of the most pervasive" assumptions in the "firewater myths" in American literature from the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries.

A psychonanalytic reading of Snyder, marginalizing Buddhist or Beat influences. Emphasizes tropes of habitation, ways of "Knowing the land."

"The philosopher of Walden emerges as a dedicated scientific observer."

A reprint of a 1983 essay, discusses responsibility of the poet, of contemporary poetry generally, in the nuclear age.

Examines the role of ecological destruction in the work of a 19th century German novelist.

Describes day of work rehabilitating damaged oak forest, in accordance with Buddhist practice.

Anthology of articles, essays, and "poetic prose pieces" by prominent ecofeminists. Bibliography.

Explores the progression of early American journey narratives, "from the seventeenth-century emphasis on God's plan to an eighteenth-century emphasis on man's reason."

Historical novel set during the settlement of the Pacific Northwest in the late nineteenth century.

Collection of essays central to green political thought, many of which are environmentalist "classics."

Theorizes an animal rights ethic grounded in "a womens' relational culture of caring" rather than the "hyper-rationality" of male animal rights activists (e.g. Singer, Regan).

Poem about raptors injured by machines.

Parallels between the novel and the epic include the heroes' unrelenting battles against overpowering natural forces bent on human destruction.

Traces attempts to incorporate scientific insights in nature literature as science itself changed, from nineteenth century to present. "Successes" include Peattie, Carson, Carrighar, Stewart, Mowatt, Leopold.

Late nineteenth-century Nez Perce conceptions of how humanity shares "one mind" with the earth.

Thoroughly delineates and advocates an "ecocentric perspective," then interrogates from this perspective the spectrum of ecopolitical thought (thereby exposing anthropocentrism in surprising places).

Essays describing successful environmental initiatives on various U.S. campuses. Efforts covered are both curricular and institutional (e.g. energy audits).

Essays on conservation/preservation and the effects of technology on the natural world.

Essays from Wyoming as well as Japan on the relationships between humans and the natural worlds. Paintings by the author.

Explores the Rocky Mountain poet's vision that the human should not take dominion over the natural and considers Ferril's attitudes toward place and space.

Collection of essays on "the fact and symbol of the tree," which "seek to reveal the connection between artificial and natural."

Hillerman renders an intricate, multidimensional, Native American mythos that places the land at the center of its belief system.

Meditation on human relationships with nature. Considers those "wild" creatures that become semi-dependent on humans and those that remain stubbornly independent.

The relationship between Eastern farmer and Western pioneer supplies cultural and thematic elements essential to understanding Laura Ingalls Wilder's accounts of the American westering experience.

An examination, as a preliminary to environmental concerns, of what our culture means by "nature" and how that meaning has evolved over five centuries.

Suggests that "reification" of Nineteenth Century wilderness retreat texts created a "new generation of these texts based primarily in earlier texts, [not] on actual experience."

Arranged in seasonal sections; international in scope. Covers period from antiquity to the present. With color reproductions of paintings from the Met's collection.

The history of Yellowstone and its current enviromental problems are narrated as the author circumnavigates the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

British and American nature writing from the eighteenth century to the present. 125 selections from 94 writers. Nearly half the selections published after 1945. Bibliography.

The works of California novelists explore tensions between California's image of escape and mobility and the sense of having run out of "space to move."

Looks at Thoreau's roots in Native American relationships to nature and in the religious ideas of Edward Johnson and Cotton Mather.

60 essays by Aldo Leopold, spanning his literary career. Bibliography.

A preservationist history of the National Parks and a proposed program for their restoration to a more natural condition.

Narrative of a winter spent in a tent in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, reaction to return in spring of hunters, tourists.

Account of a tour of the Great Lakes, beginning at Niagara Falls and including Milwaukee, Sault St. Marie, Mackinac Island, Chicago. Reprint of an 1844 edition.

Contrasts the South and the West, exploring the structural elements which underscore any discussion of regional rhetoric.

Twelve essays endeavoring to add to the development of ecofeminist thought, "reject[ing] the nature/culture dualism" of Patriarchy, and "locat[ing] animals and humans within nature. Bibliography.

Deplores separation of contemporary "confessional" poetry from context of natural (physical) world. Urges greater valuation of poetry grounded in accurate knowledge of natural world.

A "personal" account of the high plateau country of Utah and the people who live there.

Summarizes patterns of landscape processes and the effects of human culture(s) upon them along the U.S.-Mexican border. Detailed, specific.

"Boatman's view of a raft trip down the Colorado."

Case study of McPhee's process of role identification in his 1977 bestseller about Alaska's environmental challenges.

Examines continuities and discontinuities in human perceptual experience through time. Argues what we perceive is the creation of how we perceive, increasingly affected by technology.

Examines poetic projects prominent in the twentieth century displayed in the "walk poem," this genre's suitability to "the more radical aims and assumptions of modern American poetics," and the question of poetic representation as applied to immediate experience.

Prose poems exploring "the breakdown of boundaries" between memory and its relation to the present, Native American and white cultures and heritages, the mundane and the transcendant, the word and the action.

Discusses the challenges and value of using this interdisciplinary natural history text in the English classroom as a means of teaching ecological literacy.

Endeavors to state "the basic principles underlying an ecological world-view," grounded in the Gaia Hypothesis and guiding the structure and behavior of human societies. Bibliography.

Argues that the environmental crisis requires a restoration of balance between civilization and the earth, between individuals and the civilization they create, and within individuals between human identity and action. Bibliography.

Thirty-five essays, originally published in Natural History magazine, ranging in theme from evolution and "oddities of nature" to commentaries on recent events in science. Bibliography.

Describes the pros and cons of America's nuclear power industry.

"On European responses to 'The wonder of the New World'."

Studies strategies employed in eighteenth and nineteenth century American "narratives of discovery" to construct "a natural space" devoid of history and prior occupancy within which the new nation could expand and create itself. Bibliography.

A meditation on the confluence of religion (Particularly the Bible), nature, and poetry in Milton, Whitman, Hopkins, THoimas, James Wright, etc.

Nature writing in poetry workshops as a way to urge writers away from easy emphasis on the self; emphasizes style and craft.

Explores, from an ecological perspective, the social, political and personal re-orientations necessary to support "the development of ecosystem management for native diversity." Glossary.

Essay offers "an alternative to both traditional and revisionist accounts of Thoreau's economy of nature," finally arguing "that the economy Thoreau practiced at Walden . . . constituted an economy not of simplicity but of extravagance." Bibliography.

A poem celebrating Merton's sensitivity to nature as captured in his photographs.

Account of protesting annual Labor Day pigeon shoot.

Traces the development of ecosystem ecology from its roots in Darwinian evolutionary theory through the work and theoretical stances of major figures up to the present.

Modern-day Life on the Mississippi, exploring cultural and environmental state of the great river today. Photographs.

Collection of remembrances and critiques of Snyder by 60 friends for the occasion of his 60th birthday. Photos.

A biking, hiking and kayaking tour of the Hawaiian islands is told from both a male and female point of view.

Halpern writes about her move from New York City to the Adirondacks.

Residents of Plumas County, California (environmentalists and developers alike) work to help the country's economy while repairing damaged and polluted streams.

Ten essays concerning contests over "the invention of Nature:" the production and meaning of our knowledge of primates; "the power to determine stories about 'nature' and 'experiences,'" "the possibilities of a 'cyborg' feminism." Bibliography.

Cultural history of humanity's relationships with forests from classical times to the present. Bibliography.

Seven essays by an ecologist exploring the interconnections between different ecosystems -- coastal marshes, coral reefs, mountain plateaus, etc. -- and the global implications of local actions.

Studies the writings of Thoreau, Muir, and Austin, focussing "on the various paradigms they explored as they developed theories about humankind's relationship to wilderness."

A "literary discussion of selected aspects of ecological psychology" concerning "the struggle for habitable space" in "descriptions of place and character in American narrative prose."

A critique of Merton's use of birds to symbolize the transcendence of grace.

Contemporary stories and essays from and about the Lake Superior North Woods.

A remembrance of Stegner as writer, teacher, conservationist, and friend.

Excerpt from Hill's novel, The Village of Bom Jesus.

The naturalist among Alaskan native peoples.

Presents "a collection of essays thematically linked by their exploration of man's relationship with nature."

"Eighteen...statements from representatives of indigenous peoples of six continents on the nature of our global environmental crisis and changes we must make in the way we view the world."

Profile of Peter Matthiessen

Considers the use of epiphany in Dillard's work, its relationship to other epiphanists: Wordsworth, Eliot, and Hopkins, and "its association with contemporary modernist language theory."

An attempt "to provide a foundation for...an environmental ethic" (8) based on the view that the moral universe extends beyond humanity.

Poem about the night world of owls.

Essays exploring moral and ethical responsibility toward the land. Illustrations.

Childhood stories of life on the land in central Minnesota.

Nine essays that explore the limits of science and scientific language from the perspective of gender studies. Bibliography.

Poem on human perception of other animals.

Analyzes "the patterns of rhetoric used in written discourse about environmental politics...Ecologists have failed to create strong communicative links with the mass public." Bibliography.

Shows the ubiquitousness of nature/culture dualism and states that ecological feminism must forge "a genuinely antidualistic, or dialectical, theory and practice" (116).

"Songdog," second annual environmental literature feature, excerpts Ed Abbey EcoFiction Award winner Kingsolver's Animal Dreams and W. D. Weatherell's Upland Stream.

This book traces the history of the park from 1857 to 1995, including wildlife and significant human influences.

"The true story of the West, of the cowboy, and of the destruction of what we love." -- Dave Foreman. Memoir expands on Kittredge's Owning It All (1987). Bibliography.

Selections by Cooper, Bird, Thaxter, Wright, Austin, Rawlings, Lamb, Carson, Hoover, Leister, Kumin, Zwinger, LeGuin, Hubbell, Ryden, Dillard, Ehrlich, Silko, Kappel-Smith, and Williams. Bibliography.

Describes various arguments for protecting or developing Native American lands (from Native Americans' points of view)

Essays on international native visions of the natural world.

The author compares the biographical similarities of the two writers as well as their mystical and poetic sense.

Sixteen articles on "Styles of Witness," "Critical Itineraries," "American Detours," "British Encounters," and "Travel Writing Since 1900." Bibliography.

Argues that post-Darwinian British nature writers, "while . . . attentive to landscape and biology," are led by visal perception "toward a more abstract, . . .psychological portrayal of natural landscape." Bibliography.

"[T]he first and only complete manual on experiential deep ecology."

Analyzes the paleoanthropological works of Huxley, Haeckel, Darwin, Keith, and Eliot Smith as narratives which structurally resemble hero tales. Bibliography.

Sets Muir's "individual insights" on the word "Nature" in an "international and multicultural context" by historicizing and reconstructing his metaphoric use of the term.

Eighteen articles in four sections: "Gilligan's 'Different Voice': Probings," "Expanding the Question," "Checking the Data," and "Feminist Ethics and the Future of Care." Bibliography.

"Kirkland subverts the romantic myth of the frontier Eden...as she explores the nature of cultural tradition and the role of women on the frontier."

Poems: "Gary Lawless has given us a sizable number of shaman songs" -- Gary Snyder.

Looks at explorers' descriptions of North American wilderness. Arranged geographically, from East to West coast, and chronologically, from the Norsemen to Lewis and Clark. Bibliography.

Because of the development of a New Hampshire foothill, the essayist decides to leave his home and reflects on the ten years he's spent there.

Detailed study of the land, plants, animals, and people of Chase County, Kansas.

Discusses Stafford's interest in the confluence between the natural world and human perception; "the quotidian and the numinous"; Stafford's persona as "homo religious"

A series of haiku celebrating nature and monastic life.

Four poems of nature and the religious experience.

Early writings from 1915-1948 when Leopold lived in the Southwest. Photographs.

New edition with illustrations.

Through close description of this small stream in east-central Vermont, and examination of its relationship to the rest of the biosphere, Levin finds "the whole of North America embodied in Blood Brook."

Holds that "so-called radical environmentalism" advocates policies that would "result in unequivocal ecological catastrophe." Develops a capitalist critique of "deep," "left," "marxist," and other "radical" ecologies.

Excerpt from Green Delusions, concerned especially with developing a link between capitalism and the environmental movement.

Examining the work of Brown, Poe, Hawthorne, Dreiser, Pynchon, and Mailer, Limon demonstrates how American Literature, a "historically ambivalent discipline," has defined itself against scienc, a "historically secure discipline."

A critical study of Snyder's poetry, tracing "his spiritual development as well as the transforming visions that come with his Buddhist enlightenment."

Anthology of writings by leaders and activists: Abbey, Bookchin, and representatives of Earth First!, Sea Shepard, Animal Liberation.

Posits that the language of science is not a secure system of signifiers representing objective truth, but rather a series of "intricate interpenetrating laceworks of codes" that offers the same range of interpretive possibilities as imaginative literature.

Transcript of a speech to the WLA wherein author concludes that Abbey's "greatest single contribution to western culture has been to meld environmentalism and anarchism."

Excluding women from the heroic, meditative activity of fly-fishing in his recasting of western myth, Maclean perpetuates a worldview of unexamined and unconscious masculinity.

"Lopez offers a direct commentary on the condition os the American psyche by means of a small fantasy."

Long essay on the implications and lessons of Columbus's "discovery".

In four vignettes that recount events from his childhood, early adulthood, and middle age, and which explore landscapes ranging from Manhattan to Southern California, Lopez examines the ways in which stimuli from the phusical world evoke submerged memory.

A winning essay in Sierra's 1991 nature-writing contest. Lord's essay recounts day-by-day the process of a beached Belug whale's decay and dissolution back into its surroundings.

Author writes about an Alaskan landscape and the Dena'ina Indians who used to live there

Criticism of English profession's failure to respond to the "greening" of intellectual thought. Calls for literary scholars to acknowledge human place within the environment.

Suggests ecocriticism may provide a means for redefining a pastoral theory, presently bound by anachronistic assumptions, to encompass a complex vision of human/nature connections.

"we are animate products of the very scenes we survey."

Studies the "Nature Fakers" controversy, which pitted John Burroughs and Teddy Roosevelt against Ernest Thompson Seton and others who invented moral lessons from nature.

Book-length study of sociological trends in the late-Victorian and early-Modern United States. As such, it provides insight into the sources of the "postmodern" American fixation with Nature and with Wilderness.

Selections from 22 American writers from 1660 to the present. Includes taxonomy, chronology, and detailed history of genre. Extensive annotated bibliography.

Twenty contemporary nature essays, reflecting an "urge toward connectedness." Thirteen essays originally published in Witness 3.4 (1989), three reprints, four original pieces.

A collection of papers which, using a Lacanian, semiotic definition of "Symbolic," proposes ways to include women in this "Symbolic," something that, the editor argues, our culture traditionally has not done.

Poem about hawks, rattlesnakes, rabbits, humans.

Poem about a pine tree blown down in a storm.

Argues that Dillard's "emphasis on contradiction" is intended to leave readers "unsettled and disoriented enough" to discover "new ways of seeing" and of "acieving knowledge."

Argues that the "technical evolution" has not been effectively criticized in spite of its "inherent bias against nature" and that native American cultures offer appropriate alternatives. Bibliography.

Traces the fate of enviornmental policy in England as it becomes less the concern of elite individuals and more the concern of politicians.

An institutional history of Earth First!, and a defense of ecotage and similar radical environmental strategies. Manes locates the philosophical basis of radical environmentalism in the neo-Marxist ideologies of The Frankfurt School.

Examines Snyder's "ecopolitical writing" of the 1970's and 80's: influence of Buddhism, ecology, and anthropology in his rejection of "hegemonic codes"

Traces human alienation from nature through history; critiques the discipline of history in terms of environmentalism.

Poems, short stories, and essays that seek to define a sense of place in the Midwest. Photographs.

From a cross-cultural and trans-historical perspective, Marx offers that "technological improvements may very well turn out to be incompatible with genuine, that is to social, progress."

Moving against the Newtonian notion of an atomistic universe, Mathews conflates quantum mechnics, especially the unified field theory, Deep Ecology, and the monistic philosophy of Espinoza in order to develop and ethics of "oneness," "interconnectedness," and "holism."

Applies Ong's "concept of fictionalizing the audience" to Dillard and Thomas "to explain the encounter or transaction between writer and reader that the essay invites."

Chapters provide historical overview of art depicting nature, examine environmental and ecological art, and provide descriptions/illustrations of the work of twelve contemporary ecological artists. Bibliography.,

Matous skies Yellowstone national Park alone for five days in the middle of winter.

Author joins a savanna ecologist's investigation into the Mbuti Pygmies of Africa, "one of the last [surviving] groups of hunter gatherers."

On Yellowstone's grizzly bears.

Because of religious beliefs, gender roles and poverty, family planning is almost non-existent in Guatemala, the most populous country in Central America.

McConahay discusses the problems -- excessive tourism, national poverty, etc. -- surrounding Central America's national park system.

McDonagh suggests a redefinition of the missionary role of the Catholic Church, one that takes into account such broad environmental questions as the effect of international debt on the earth, global overpopulation, and deforestation.

McDowell poses the question of whether Frost's poetry treats humn/nature relationships in a way that encourages "balanced, harmonious ecology," and concludes that it does, despite its occasional tendency anthropormorphize nature.

Argues that the three writers "offer ecologically structured views of the landscape" by employing a contradictory "dialogical interplay of voices and values."

An introduction to Native American philosophy, history, and rites to reconnect with and heal the planet.

Poetic tribute in the form of an anagram to Thomas Merton symbolized as a terrarium.

Argues that we are less well-informed today though inundated with information. "There are lessons . . . that nature teaches and TV can't."

Photographs by Hardie Truesdale.

Husband and wife dialogue while bicycling, walking, kayaking Hawaiian islands.

Examines the continuing influence of wilderness on American writing, re-examining Turner's "Frontier Thesis," concluding that "changing ideas . . . have contributed to drastically different conceptions of 'wilderness.'"

A "fruendschaft" for Berry: poems, letters, reminiscences and articles examining Berry's career as novelist, essayist, poet. Bibliography includes list of work-specific book reviews.

A guide to books which explore the literary, scientific, political, and ethical responses to the environment.

More than 125 poems on nature by 93 contemporary poets. "Each of the poems here is a pleas on behalf of the wild," writes Merrill.

A reprint of Merton's 1942 poem with its 1992 counterpoint deploring technological pollution.

History of human relations with wild animals in North America. Argues that "animals have intrinsic worth apart from their usefulness to people." Photo essay. Bibliography.

"Leading conservationists and nature writers review the classics of the genre." Includes excerpts from the works reviewed. Annotated bibliography.

An alphabetical list ('Amaranth' to 'Yew,' 'Adder' to 'Wren') of entries on plants and animals which "appear with some significance in English and American Literature" (xii).

Modern-day Walden in an undeveloped square mile of land in suburban Boston. Focuses on humanity's sense of time, place, and placelessness.

American confrontations with the wilderness from prehistoric man to Native Americans to European pioneers.

Abbey's skeptical and ironic voice challenges the reverential vision of contemporary nature writing thereby gaining authority for his ultimately celebratory vision of the western landscape.

Collection of 13 reprinted and 4 original essays (& an interview), examing Snyder's oevre from a variety of critical perspectives. Bibliography.

Introduction to and a critical study of Snyder's life, poetic influences, and writing, poetry& prose. Chapters focus on individual titles. Extensive notes. Annotated bibliography.

International and multicultural anthology of writing about Alaska and the Yukon from 1741-1989. Photographs.

Nineteen essays by seventeen "up-and-coming" nature writers, expressing themes of "communion," "renewal," and "liberation," according to Murray. Arranged geographically around the continental divide.

Fifteen premier nature writers respond to Murray's question: "is nature writing the next, or is it already, the major genre in American literature?" (74).

Essays on the grizzly by nature writers, journalists, and biologists. Covers Alaska and the northern and southern Rockies in the U.S. Maps. Chronology of grizzly history in North America. Bibliography

Nabhan reflects on desert behavior of hummers, the O'odham, and the Persian Gulf War.

Twenty writers -- including native storytellers, early hunter-naturalists, modern biologists, and literary naturalists -- discuss the pivotal psychic role of bighorn sheep in a wild desert.

Nabhan recounts a 200-mile trek through Umbria and Tuscany.

Life and writings of early twentieth-century Arctic explorer.

"[O]ver 50 key writings. . . [The] best overview of American conservation/environmental writing available." -- Dave Foreman. Bibliography, chronology of American environmentalism.

Essays, including the topics of hunting and reinhabitation, from an Alaskan island.

Excerpt from epynomous novel, winner of 1992 Ed Abbey EcoFiction Award.

Examines Frederic Remington's relationship with the disappearing "wild" United States. Discusses primarily Remington's art, but also examines his fiction.

Connection to place and living on the Great Plains.

Extrapolates a value system from Thoreau's insect analogies that contrasts favorably with mainstream economic models ascribing equal value to all consumer preferences.

"Explores the relationship of women to the natural environment through the work of writers, illustrators, landscape and garden designers, ornithologists, botanists, biologists, and conservationists."

Employs the "fundamental assumption" that "'the wild' is erotic space" to examine the "secular pilgrimages, literary journeys" of Thoreau, Muir, King, Austin, and Reuss.

Examines how "the concept of wild nature [has] changed over the millenia" and explores "the environmental consequences" of that change.

Ten essays, by Gary Snyder, Paul Shepard, George Sessions, Michael Cohen, Pete Gunter and others.

Sixteen articles about the environment's relationship to politics, science, economics, philosophy, and religion, originally presented at a conference at the University of North Texas.

Special issue devoted to art and nature. Essays by Susan Griffin, John Haines, Scott Sanders.

Argues that ecological literacy is the core of all practical learning.

The author writes: "[T]he wild is erotic space. . . .In approaching the varied terrain covered by these pilgrims, I [ask] "What is happening here -- and to whom?"

Nearly 250 poems by 83 contemporary American poets, who both sing nature's praises and reexamine its definition. Concluding critical essay. A Bread Loaf anthology.

83 poets whose poems "reflect a highly developed consciousness of the natural world." Political, aesthetic, religious. Introduction and historical afterward.

Essays on Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Barry Lopez, Henry Beston, Richard Nelson, Loren Eiseley, and John Muir.

Poems based on Pavlich's work with prisoners and as a fire lookout and firefighter.

Excerpt from epynomous autobiography in special section: "Songdog: The Magazine of Environmental Literature." See also column explaining special section, pg 66.

"The most careful study yet of the compositional relations between [Thoreau's] journals and [his] books. -- Andrew Delblanco, The New Republic.

Abbey's friend, editor and co-author, Petersen discusses the posthumous preparation for publication of a representative sampling of Abbey's journals, manuscripts and private papers.

Peterson describes her relationship with the seagulls on Puget Sound beach.

This book discusses careers and lists programs in Environmental Engineering and Design, Environmental Health, Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, and Natural Resources Management. Bibliography.

Anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on rural experience, divided into the categories "The Farm," The Small Town," and "The Wilderness."

Traces the "counter-theology" of the "rhetoric of degeneration" to the use of "degenerate" in the translation of Jeremiah 3 in the King James Bible.

Discusses, in part, McCarthy and Edward Abbey's shared worldview regarding the Southwest landscape wherein "a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinships."

A year on a farm in Vermont's Green Mountains and the struggle to remain connected to the land. Illustrations.

Notes of wanderings in the Sonoran Desert.

The tracking down of a wolf reveals the paradox between mythic visions of the Old West and the actualities of the new West.

Examples of how literature of the American West is fertile ground for the eco-hero and the working out of relations between Self and landscape.

Twelve linked essays suggesting that Americans have much to learn about nature in the garden, a middle ground in the false nature/culture opposition.

Polsgrove discusses the Highlander Center, an instituion in Tennessee where environmental and social-change activists learn from one another.

Excerpt from epynomous novel, first winner of Edward Abbey Award for EcoFiction. See column announcing establishment of annual award, pg 66.

The author compares these two Kentuckians as men of the soil who write eloquently of nature, often with different styles, but ultimately the same message of reverence for creation.

Examines problems of "urbanization, materialism, industrialization, ecological destruction, breakdown of traditional family values, and secularization" in fiction between the Civil War and World War I.

On "monocular vision, poetry, and birds," with special attention to Robert Penn Warren.

Explores missing pieces in the legend concerning Wallace's and Darwins's simultaneous development of natural selection theory.

Hapalemur aureus, a primate only just discovered by scientists in 1986, inhabits a rainforest of tremendous biodiversity.

Surveys the reasons why large, nonhuman predators are so rare.

On macropods (kangaroo family) and their history of human encounters.

Examines the "risky form of hubris" exercized when humans introduce non-native species in new places -- and the consequences of trying to check the ensuing plagues.

In search of the nearly extinct Javan tiger.

Discusses the federal government's attempts to quiet Earth Firstiers with felony charges, speculating as to "how much uglier the battle over wilderness [can] get."

Asks why we jump readily to the defense of "innocent" dolphins but not the tuna that the fishermen's nets are after; which do we care more about, "humanity's relationship to nature" or "Man's Best Marine Friend."

In Texas, dozens of rattlesnake roundups ("pageantr[ies] of hatred") take place each year to bring death by the thousands -- a travesty few seem to know or care about.

The male muniqui of South America is curious both for its oversized testicles and for what these normally argue against: an amazingly peaceable disposition.

Explores convincing and not-so-convincing features of the Big Bang Theory.

Points out the absence of women's experience in a wide range of studies concerning human evolution and interaction with nature, concluding that the omission has likely given us fragmentary pictures that too easily pass for complete truth.

Highly poisonous and "possibly the most abundant reptile on earth" Pelamis platurus may one day extend its range inot currently foreign waters, such as the Atlantic.

Author blends remarks on Einstein's and Hawking's insights into time with reflections on his own parents' fiftieth anniversary.

On the beautiful -- and endangered -- Bali starling.

Argues that "the environment" is a dangerous concept, void of the important ecological subtleties inherent in other, better concepts: "the biosphere" or, more simply, "the world."

Raises provocative questions concerning the historical and future role of zoos: are they responsible guardians of rare species, opportunistic merchants of nature's freak shows, or both?

On the spiral galaxy M101, or what astronomers call a "dark halo" just off one side of the Big Dipper.

On Jim Corbett, teacher of "goatwalking" (surviving in the Southwestern deserts with little more than goats for nourishment)-turned-Sanctuary movement activist.

The natural history of the last surviving species of the coelacanth, a "living fossil."

On the "nemesis theory" for explaining the rather regular timing of mass extinctions.

The latest chapter in the coyote's natural history -- urban adaptation.

On Gilbert White (The Natural History of Selborne) and his adherence, depite 50 years of close observation, to the belief that swallows hibernate.

On the physics of moving liquids, with a nod to Leonardo da Vinci for realizing four centuries before anyone else that the human heart is an ingenious system of vortices.

Examines left-handedness in both humans and nonhumans and recent research indicating that human "lefties" die sooner than right-handed people.

Surveys the intellectual development of Edward O. Wilson and questions related to Wilson's latest concern, biodiversity.

The down side of ecotourism.

A meditation on Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place and on its central natural phenomenon: cancer.

Explores the natural history of the tropical durian fruit -- which smells terrible but tastes delicious -- and what it suggests about the evolution of tropical trees.

Defends the importance of species exterminations -- particularly those resulting from human impact -- even in the face of more sensational human tragedies, such as starvation in Somalia

Offers insight into high rates of recent amphibian extinctions based on examination of places where they've never occurred (naturally) to begin with: islands.

Begins by criticizing filmed nature documentaries for their subtly manipulated lies, moves on to the much earlier visual "lie" of Durer's 1515 rhinoceros woodcut -- and then takes much of his criticism back.

Tongue-in-cheek look at the natural history of male sex organs in numerous species and the theories that have been set forth to explain such wide variations upon the basic theme.

On the famed -- but rarely observed -- mating display of the male bird of paradise.

Reviews genetic studies conducted of humans and chimpanzees -- the most closely related of the "great apes" -- and ponders the ethical implications.

The tent caterpillar is given to what scientists call "outbreaks" in population -- as is Homo sapiens.

Explains "ecosystem decay" resulting from habitat insularity and one of conservation biology's visionary proposals to curb it: The Wildlands Project, focusing on areas linking habitats.

Examines the conflicts between a family's beliefs in the myths of pastoralism and the yeoman farmer and the harsh realities of surviving on the land.

Studies the works of Annie Dillard, Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, and Edward Abbey, and suggests that nature writing must be extended beyond just nonfiction.

While members of a Sierra Club outing revel in the magnificence of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Government officials consider the refuge for oil drilling.

Describing a rafting trip on the Tatshenshini (Yukon Territory), Rauber ponders the environmental disadvantages of an open-pit copper mine proposed for nearby Windy Craggy Mountain.

A poet/biologist writes of his acid rain research in the farthest reaches of Wyoming's Wind River Range, blending backcountry adventure with environmental philosophy.

"Classic articles and interviews with Norway's pioneers of Deep Ecology" -- Dave Foreman.

Famous mountaineer/essayist in the French Alps.

Quotes contemporary American nature writers, as well as Earth lovers of other generations and cultures.

Robertson follows the "trails" of Synder and Kerouac, producing an historical, photographic and imaginative response to their journeys across a landscape that influenced their work.

Stories about humans in relation with wild or semi-domesticated animals, "examining the nature of a sustained and artificial separation between ourselves and these other creatures."

Fuller's little examined work is an autobiographical account of personal change and her interpretation of relations to nature, redefining her experience in female terms.

Argues that captivity themes in American literature "express the tensions between" the conservative desire for safety and the progressive desire for individual freedom.

Argues a "psychoanalysis of modern civilization based on the premise that our estrangement from Nature is the root of our social ills." -- Dave Foreman. Bibliography.

Ecopsychologists, psychologists responding to the environmental movement, speculate that mental health may be related to the biosphere.

Reads modern nature poetry as a terrain on which epistemological and aesthetic concerns and questions are posed.

Interviews with the Norwegian originator of "deep ecology." Photographs, bibliography.

"Explores the rhetorical role of scientific language" in arguing that "natural scientific discourse determined the 'nature' upon which Americans based their narratives of self."

Detective investigates murder of a environmental activist.

Explores, through folk and literary narratives, "that complex of meaning that gives a landscape significance in the eyes of the people who inhabit it."

"A history of the conservation/environmental movement that considers the role of Earth First! and . . . critique[s] . . . the mainstream groups." -- Dave Foreman.

Saner, a poet, blends philosophy, history, and natural history into thoughtful essays on his Rocky Mountain home and his travels, partly in seach of "a radical enterprise: to spend at least one day of my life as if it were precious."

Nineteen essays exploring "a changing culture's way of living with a changing nature." Five sections on home ground, geographies near and distant, childhood, and metaphors.

Suggests that "living in and studying the natural and human history of a particular place, all four writers developed a preservationist consciousness and resulting "eco-vision."

Thematically arranged catagories: Loss, celebration, consolation, observation, etc. International in scope. Covers period from antiquity to the present.

Examines the "salvational role of the wilderness" in the works of James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau.

Schueler exposes the corruption which exists in the Animal Damage Control program (ADC), a U.S. government agency responsible for killing troublesome predators that attack livestock.

Studies the entire text of Snyder's long poems, traces their origins in his theme of "original mind," and "unifies the main strands" of the poems.

If a "nature writer" "sees the environment as a scientist but...describes it as a humanist," Native Americans should often be considered nature writers.

Selcraig discusses the environmental problems created in the construction of America's 14,000 golf courses.

"A memoir rich in the history of the area and in widsom about the natural world."

"...explores the emergence of modern [environmental] attitudes in literature, art, and architecture -- their evolutionary past and their taproot in European and Mediterranean cultures."

Poem describing response to the swarming of wild bees

An historical perspective of Sierra magazine since its creation in 1893. The Sierra Club's early days are discussed. Excerpts from environmental controversies included.

A memoir by the chief climbing ranger at Grand Teton National Park during the 1960s, when climbing boomed, creating a schism in climbing philosophies.

Seven critical essays on Thoreau, Dillard, Abbey, Berry, and Lopez, arguing that "understanding the workings of the human mind" leads to attentiveness to our own place in the natural world." Bibliography.

Explores "the relationship between the external world and the mind of the writer" in selected works of Thoreau, Abbey, Dillard, Lopez, and Berry.

Essays, letters, and journals about nature for composition courses and workshops. Arranged topically with alternative contents. Includes discussion questions, writing assignments, visual art, glossary, bibliographies.

Translated into Japanese

Special issue on American nature writing (nine essays translated into Japanese, plus two introductory essays and a dialogue between Scott Slovic and Ken Noda)

An analysis of the "style and technique of Dillard's major works," and an examination of her themes and how the works were critically received.

Nine essays exploring the nature of the wild, the foundations of a bioregional consciousness, and the grounds upon which culture may be reintegrated into nature.

Collection includes new poems as well as selections from earlier books.

Explicates texts by Dorothy Wordsworth, Jane Austin, Ann Radcliff. Considers "Sensation and intellection" in picturesque landscape. Edmund Burke's theory of gender roles in Nature challenged.

Snyder writes about civilization's encroachment on his California land, concluding that "political vigilance" is necessary to save any natural environment.

Applying Aldo Leopold's tenets to the management (and mismanagement) of wilderness areas.

Retrospective essays on life in the West. Stegner's last book.

Steinhart describes the disappearance of America's wetlands in hopes that the public and the government will begin to understand the importance of this ecosystem.

Poem about the bonds of shared experience of nature.

Eight essays handling historical, political, and aesthetic issues relevant to the eighteenth and nineteenth English landscape garden. Three focus on gardens and parkland at Stowe.

Ten chapters containing vignettes from various non-western traditions "cluster[ed] around a central ecological, biological or evolutionary theme" juxtaposed against the relevant modern scientific perspective. Bibliography.

Selection of 77 poems from 55 poets concerned about "the beauty and fragility of our earth." Poems first appeared in The Amicus Journal, 1979-89. Illustrations.

Argues that the western landscape in American and Canadian women's writing addresses "controversies over women's place and language," and "illustrates human responsibility" to the land.

"This project integrates the traditions of nature writing and spirituality through a series of personal essays exploring the sense of place."

Introduction by John Hay; illustrations by Louis Aggasiz-Fuertes.

A new Norton Critical edition including selections from the journal, reviews, and essays in criticism.

Looks at how Abbey and McMurtry "define freedom through their explorations of the relationship of locale and changing values in the changing West."

Personal memoir and history of the Pacific Northwest.

The aesthetics and impact of the Western.

Looks at responses to "the nature/culture dichotomy in light of changing conceptions of wilderness" in the novels of seven American writers.

Argues that the aesthetic response, including the aesthetic response to the natural environment, is not merely an "aspect of culture but its central core." Bibliography.

Connections between Black Elk's heritage and protagonist in Meridian. Symbolism of "hoop," "flowering tree," and "red road" discussed. Indian myth liberates and empowers Walker's writing.

"Examination of the interconnectedness of nature and human endeavor."

Studies of Thoreau, Twain, Cable, Cather, Mari Sandoz, Faulkner, Steinbeck, William Carlos Williams, Silko and their landscapes. Bibliography.

Assesses selected essays on environment and nuclear arms in terms of the "rhetoric of assent," modifying Booth's phrase in terms of the "good reasons movement."

With Peter Wild's annotations, provides the biographical (psychological, historical, sociological) contexts of Van Dyke's The Desert, The Grand Canyon, The Open Spaces, and other of his influential early-twentieth-century nature books.

Woman lawyer defends conservationist.

Female attorney helps radical environmentalist in New Mexico.

Essays from the North American wilderness.

Anthology of fiction, essays, and poetry on the Midwestern experience.

Interview with McPhee on stylistic and rhetorical decisions in writing "In Virgin Forest."

"Rhetorical analysis of the dialectic between metaphorical and metonymic narrative in Thoreau's four books reveals a Thoreau increasingly engaged in natural and temporal human practice."

Examines the tension between modern ecocentrism and a writer's necessarily anthropocentric thinking in representative twentieth-century nature writing.

Excerpt from Weatherell's Upland Stream, in annual environmental literature special section.

A comparison of the two writers against the background of Thomas Berry's principles of the new cosmology.

Poem drawn from birdwatching.

A "deft combination of science and romance," this 1901 work, one of a series, led to a major shift in public thinking about America's arid landscapes.

A survey of literary representations of the Southwestern deserts, beginning with the legends of the Tohono O'Odham and concluding with the contemporary work of Peter Reyner Banham. Also includes Mary Austin, John C. Van Dyke, and Edward Abbey.

Twenty-seven essays on nature and biodiversity, the impossibility of endless growth, and holism and sustainability.

Author's memoir of rise of the Great Salt Lake (in the early 1980's), its effects on nearby bird refuge, and the loss of her mother.

Meditates on fall's subtle presence in the Sonoran Desert and the Florida Keys.

Suggests that "John Muir valued the landscape because it could offer humans a true picture of God and God's will for mankind."

On a hiking trip in Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, Williams and two companions count bombs instead of the sheep they had planned to.

Argues that "the essence of the biodiversity problem is that biological wealth" is not adequately understood nor adequately valued, requiring a new, long-term environmental ethic. Glossary.

Essays by the leading environmental historian on agriculture, ecology, Leopold, the field of environmental history, water, sustainable development and other topics.

A study of the relationship of language to science, nature, and ecology.

A meditation on the importance of Place for Snyder as a person, home-builder, dweller, Zen practitioner, poet.

"[A] thorough and insightful history of the modern conservation movement." -- Dave Foreman.

"An icon of the ecology movement," Robinson Jeffers' "nuanced and complex view of man's relation to the natural world is in danger of oversimplification today."

Recent essays by philosphers of radical ecology, focusing on Deep Ecology, Ecofeminism, and Social Ecology.

Speech to WLA in which the 20-year veteran naturalist discusses the craft of natural history writing: "scientific in its accuracy, but literary in its intent."

Zwinger's passion is picking up pebbles.