Selected Opportunities and Resources for Nature Writers
Nature in Legend and Story (NILAS) is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization, devoted to exploration of relationships between human beings and the natural world, reflected in folklore, literature and other cultural activities with spiritual focus.
The Nature Web from Nature Magazine.
EPA Grants - public environmental education.
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
promotes the exchange of ideas and information about literature that considers human relationships with the natural world.
Forums on nature and birdwatching topics
For freelance writers: Links to writer’s guidelines for nature related periodicals.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Environmental Issues and Nature Writing :: Self Directed Study
Web resources on Nature Writing -- study on your own with a syllabus and course materials compiled by top universities.
MIT -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- offers a free online course Writing About Nature and Environmental Issues.
The University of Indiana, Bloomington offers a study guide and resources on nature writing.
Monday, August 1, 2011
We are Not Weeds
New York Times book review reminds us that weeds are necessary. Some offer excellent nutrition -- elderberry, dandelion, young polk leaves.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Environmental Movement in China
Photos from China-- Gulangyu Island
where cars are not permitted ......
and Shanghai, where cars rule.
China's Emerging Environmental Movement - Environment 360
Nature Writing Exercise
A few thoughts to start your thoughts about your relationship with nature and the natural world:
What is your first memory of nature or the outdoors?
What is the role of the writer in observing and reporting about the natural world?
Do you think a nature or outdoors writer has a role as a spiritual caretaker for the earth and the universe?
Does the writer or artist have a responsibility for nature beyond that of the scientist?
Describe the intersection of creativity and responsibility.
Does a nature writer need to maintain the same exacting standards of truth as a scientist?
Friday, January 23, 2009
To Read :: Nature Writing
The Literature of Nature -- Reading List
This list is a highly personal selection of some of the books about nature and related subjects that I use for inspiration, information and development. Not a comprehensive list!
Add to it through the comments function.
Many of the authors listed here have written other works with an environmental focus.
And dozens of superb nature writers who write in languages other than English are not on this list.
The Serpents of Paradise, Edward Abbey, Henry Holt and Co. 1995
A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman, Vintage Books, 1991
The Beauty of the Beastly, Natalie Angier, Houghton Mifflin, 1995
The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins, Oxford University Press, 1976
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard, Harper & Row Perennial Library, 1985, originally published 1974
A Match to the Heart, Gretel Ehrlich, Penguin Books, 1995
Woman and Nature, Susan Griffin, Harper, 1978
Spring in Washington, Louis J. Halle, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988
The Experience of Place, Tony Hiss, Vintage Books, 1991
Women on Hunting, edited by Pam Houston, Ecco Press, 1995
Broadsides from the Other Orders, A Books of Bugs, Sue Hubbell, Random House, 1993
The Mind of the Dolphin, John Cunningham Lilly, Avon Books, 1969
Indian Country, Peter Matthiessen, Penguin Books, 1992
The Way of the Earth, T. C. McLuhan, Simon & Schuster, 1994
Encounters with the Archdruid, John McPhee, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971
One Man’s Garden, Henry Mitchell, Houghton Mifflin, 1992
The Cuiise of the Corwin, John Muir, Sierra Club Books 1993, originally published 1917
Soungbirds, Truffles, and Wolves, Gary Paul Nabhan, Penguin, 1993
Spiritual Ecology, A Guide to Reconnecting with Nature, Jim Nollman, Bantam Books, 1990
Why We Garden, Jim Nollman, Henry Hold and Co. 1994
Who Speaks for Earth, edited by Maurice F. Strong, W. W. Norton & Co. 1973
Earthly Pleasures, Roger B. Swain, Charles Scribners, 1981
Life and Death of the Salt Marsh, John and Mildred Teal, Ballantine Books, 1971
Lives of a Cell, Lewis Thomas,
Walden and Other Writings, Henry David Thoreau, Bantam, 1961, originally self-published, 1853
Letters from the Earth, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)Fawcett, 1962, originally published 1938
Beautiful Swimmers, William W. Warner, Penguin, 1976
Onward and Upward in the Garden, Katharine S. White, Farar, Straus, Giroux, 1979, originally pub. 1958
Naturalist, Edward O. Wilson, Island Press, 1994
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