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Does anyone read nature writing anymore? I feel like I never hear anything about it. I really don't know that much about it except for a few people like Audubon and Matthiessen and Muir
I guess the point of the thread is to ask if there are any nature writers you really enjoy
eh I only know the major transcendentalists and Rachel Carson, but I've enjoyed what I've read. Parts of Walden were obnoxious
>>8063290
Nature is a spook
>>8063290
Not really.
Society has become massively more urbanised over the past century, so we've lost that connection to nature which is important in nature writing (e.g. nature poetry, which used to be a huge genre of verse).
Try to write something like Tintern Abbey nowadays and it just comes off as archaic.
>>8063290
that black dude on the left
>>8063393
Couldn't the argument be made that this would create a larger market for nature writing? People who already live in nature don't need someone to tell them how magnificent it is, they can just look outside. Someone who lives in the city could be yearning to get even a description of the outdoors.
>>8063453
Not really, because (good) writing comes out of human experience.
>>8063290
The Peregrine was pretty popular around here last year.
I enjoyed Arctic Dreams as well.
Matthiessen I've read a bunch of his stuff. The Snow Leopard and The Tree Where Man Was Born were favorites
>>8064048
god sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who's reading him
After seeing an article about him in the NYT shortly before his death I read Far Tortuga and got hooked. Since then I've read Men's Lives, Blue Meridian, The Cloud Forest, and In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. I've got Travels with Cranes on my bedside stand waiting to be read. I don't know what it is or how he does it but he does it so well.
