/lit/ - Literature

>>19707322
I really like nature writing so I will recommend that you check out anything by Edward Abbey (most importantly Desert Solitaire), Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun, The Peregrine by J.A. Baker and Ray Mears’ books My Outdoor Life/We Are Nature

I just ordered Rachel Carson's Sea Trilogy, really looking forward to it.

>>19707347
Thanks, I've added them to my list of things to look for

>>19707366
Should also mention, Library of America has a great collection of nature writings going back a few centuries up to modern times.

>>19707366
Not quite what I'm looking for. I don't care for scientific explanations. I'm more into books that describe the planet as if it was made in God's image, and an appreciation for the divine within life and nature. I don't want it torn apart with equations and charts and formulas.

>>19707386
She just shows how it is all interconnected, not at all a scientific work.

>>19707367
You’re welcome. Arne Naess is also someone you should check out. He loved nature, and was the first to advocate ‘deep ecology. He also loved climbing mountains.

>>19707386
>I don't want it torn apart with equations and charts and formulas.
Not a good mindset to have.
To paraphrase something from a textbook I read once:

This bird is fine and undamaged by the diagramming. It is still a bird. Through understanding its biology you can understand its differences to other birds, its similarities too - birders love birds but wouldn't sneer at this.

Kepler, the great astrophysicist before there was a word for that, whose eponymous laws of planetary motion are still in use, believed that with his understanding of the "harmony of the spheres", with his rigorous mathematical understanding of the planets and stars, he could better appreciate God.

>>19707322
the poetry of William Cullen Bryant, underrated poet of early American Romanticism, mentor to Walt Whitman. most of his work has a focus on nature and solitude.

Prairyerth by William Least Heat Moon

>>19707411
I guess I'm more into the romantic aspect of nature than the scientific.
>>19707427
That's interesting, I never heard of him but will check it out. That image really speaks to what I'm looking for but in literature
>>19707462
Just looked into him, I'll add him into a backlog, I think I have a good amount for now

>>19707504
the painting is Asher Durand's Kindred Spirits, the two figures are Bryant with painter Thomas Cole

>>19707322
You could try Gerard Manley Hopkins' poetry.

>>19707322
https://youtu.be/tUBVEKzsZ-k

>>19707322
A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold (surprised someone hasn't already mentioned it)

>>19708624
Whats the story on that symbol next to Snukin?

>>19708802
nvm I'm just stupid and realized its "v3" as in "version three"

>>19707386
Walden literally has chapters dedicated to his finances filled with charts and formulas. There are chapters comparing statistics of city-living and rural-living. There is scientific analysis. You did read Walden right anon?