/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18724933]

Any good books about nature and the outdoors?

[the xi jinping of weed smoking !!oqyjkIO5smI No.18724942]

just go outside

[Anonymous No.18724959]

>>18724942
Pretty sure he asked for a book.

>>18724933

[Anonymous No.18725069]

>>18724942
i do go outside. i really like hiking and camping.
i'd just like to read about something i enjoy.

[the xi jinping of weed smoking !!oqyjkIO5smI No.18725677]

>>18725069
i know. i was just being a dick. i am sorry

[Anonymous No.18725699]

>>18724933
emerson's essay on nature
walden

[Anonymous No.18725707]

>>18724933
Hemingway short stories

[Anonymous No.18725722]

>>18724933

[Anonymous No.18725744]

>>18724933
I can bet that this photograph is from PNW, taken by an upper class hip """influence""". I remember this cringe fucking trend which every other Portland faggot """photographer""" was following to gain more followers like NPCs. There is an account on Instagram by the name of insta_repeat which highlighted this fag shit. It's so embarrassing that I use to eat this shit up few years ago. I remember a /p/ anon told me that you will going to laugh at this shit when you will get older and he was right.

[Anonymous No.18725779]

desert solitaire

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS No.18725969]

I like my little book by this woman named Coogle

>>18725744
>People were taking an interest in photography! Go back to >>>/p/ faggot

[soursore !!5HEGfvI0zIR No.18726012]

The Earth is Enough
>young boy sent to live with two old fly fishermen because reasons
>old men just read and fish
>teach boy the wonders of nature
>and reading

[Anonymous No.18726056]

>>18725969
>NOOOOOO how dare you criticise upper class privileged retards who approach photography as a business and copy each other's work like NPCs NOOOOOOO let people be the obedient slave of capital
Shut the fuck up liberal dyke.

[Anonymous No.18726065]

>>18726056
BASED

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS No.18726103]

>>18726056
Have you tried to ween them off of capitalism?
Have you even tried to convert them to some socialist doctrines? Or are you from some tanky sect that insists the revolution will come only from the global south and you shouldn’t waste your time?

[Anonymous No.18726117]

>>18725677
that's ok

[Anonymous No.18726131]

>>18725744
to be frank, im not very familiar with the post. i just sort of liked it.
if i had my phone near me, i would've posted a pic from my latest hike.

[Anonymous No.18726145]

>>18724933
Walden by Henry Thoreau

[Anonymous No.18726166]

>>18724933
Any Cormac Mccarthy novel with the exceptions of Nfcom and Cotp.

[Anonymous No.18726212]

>>18726103
>revolution will come only from the global south
It WON'T!!
Even if we wanted it you nothern bastards wouldn't let.

[Anonymous No.18726243]

>>18726103
You don't know the history of the PNW trend that I am talking about nor do you understand the filthy business of Instagram """photography""" influencers and paying bot companies to up the numbers of your followers so you can get more freelancing jobs from big companies not due to rigor of your work but due to numbers of your followers, which was very popular few years ago. I was a dumb romantic teenager back then who thought that """real""" life is in cool northern alps and where I live is a complete shithole.

>>18726131
Nah that's okay for the people who aren't familiar with the hacks who produced such photographs. These photographs aren't bad by themselves but they became insufferable after pathetically braindead repetition.

Please checkout the haikus of Basho. Those are full very natural and seasonal comfy imagery.

[the xi jinping of weed smoking !!oqyjkIO5smI No.18726288]

>>18726117
I've been trying to come up with a suggestion to make up for being a dick.
Best thing I could think of is a John Steinbeck short story an anon recommended once. "Breakfast". Its not the most naturey story but its comfy and only 3 pages. Here it is:
>https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/18007258/breakfast-by-john-steinbeck

[Anonymous No.18726338]

Growth of the Soil is top comfy nature/farming /lit/ except for the couple of really blackpilled parts about women
>>18725699
>>18726145
based Walden-bros

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS No.18726365]

>>18726243
I don’t want to seem like I defend capitalism, but just stop being so bitter with people for having to chip away at making a living in it. It’s a sick system and makes some pretty loathsome marketeers out of people. They need help out of these sick ways.
I was only poking fun at your crotchety post. No offense man.

>Basho
I downloaded that.

[Anonymous No.18726390]

>>18726338
Tell me more about Walden. In what way is this book significant for you?

[Anonymous No.18726413]

>>18726212
*northen

[Anonymous No.18726432]

>>18726390
Just read it brosef

[Anonymous No.18726448]

J.A. Baker's "The Peregrine"
>>18726338
Dude Oline is one of my least favorite characters in all of fiction

[Anonymous No.18726453]

>>18724933
A Balcony in the forest by Gracq

[Anonymous No.18726460]

>>18726432
I try to cut down whimsical consumption of books, since the question.

[Anonymous No.18726463]

>>18724933
>>18726453
oh and Giono, really anything by Giono

[Anonymous No.18726501]

>>18726145
>ITS SO ECONOMICAL LIVING ON ANOTHER MAN'S LAND FOR FREE BROS WHY DOESN'T EVERYONE DO THIS.
This read like a leftist Twitter from the 19th century

[Anonymous No.18726547]

>>18726365
Following those people messed me up for some years. Because they were selling the dream lifestyle of alps, wooden cabins, wool clothing, living/travelling in 4x4 land cruisers/defenders/Volkswagen camper vans, camping every other night, hanging out with friends, fancy coffees in foggy weather, freelancing etc. It never really occurred to that most of them were privileged 1st world kids with a different environment, different set of opportunities and the ugly boring shit they were doing behind the scenes, because I was a naive romantic teenager. And I absolutely loathed the place I was living in and my "banal" life. But Pessoa taught me a lot about myself and my environment. I don't want to further shit up this thread so checkout this sublime poem by Pessoa:

From my village I see as much of the universe as can be seen
from the earth,
And so my village is as large as any town,
For I am the size of what I see
And not the size of my height . . .

In the cities life is smaller
Than here in my house on top of this hill.
The big buildings of cities lock up the view,
They hide the horizon, pulling our gaze far away from the
open sky.
They make us small, for they take away all the vastness our
eyes can see,
And they make us poor, for our only wealth is seeing.

[Anonymous No.18726778]

>>18726390
it's everything I want to be, a comfy life in nature and not paying taxes

[Anonymous No.18726813]

>>18725969
Based

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS No.18727471]

>>18726547
Thanks for this, anon.

[Anonymous No.18727669]

>>18724933
Walden
Sand County Almanac
Desert Solitaire by Abbey
The Pine Barrens - McPhee

[Anonymous No.18727702]

>>18724933
It's a nice picture.

I read a book called Wilderness and the American Mind, it was pretty interesting.

[Anonymous No.18727725]

>>18726501
It’s true tho

[Anonymous No.18727790]

Natures cure

[Anonymous No.18728278]

>>18724933
I'll offer you some slightly different fare, OP: conservationism and an understanding of land as a superorganism and biotic community instead of an aesthetic pastiche. In the English language and especially the US, Leopold is the gold standard. A Sand County Almanac is his most popular but I prefer the collection "The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold". You can see him evolve from someone who viewed the wild as resources to be extracted to a borderline eco-fascist by the thirties. This is an except from his essay "Land-Use and Democracy", published in 1942.

>No new device in human affairs is ever an unmixed blessing. The idea here proposed: hitching conservation directly to the producer-consumer relation instead of to the government, entails some serious risks. It would present the professional advertiser with an opportunity for euphemized deception and equivocation vastly larger than cigarettes. The more complex the product or process, the wider the field for the trained hoodwinker.
>This brings us to the real and indispensable functions of government in conservation. Government is the tester of fact vs. fiction, the umpire of bogus vs. genuine, the sponsor of research, the guardian of technical standards, and, I hasten to add, the proper custodian of land which, for one reason or another, is not suited to private husbandry. These functions will become real and important as soon as conservation begins to grow from the bottom up, instead of from the top down, as is now the case.
>Conservation is a state of health in the land-organism. Health expresses the cooperation of the interdependent parts: soil, water, plants, animals, and people. It implies collective self-renewal and collective self-maintenance. When any one part lives by depleting another, the state of health is gone. As far as we know, the state of health depends on the retention in each part of the full gamut of species and materials comprising its evolutionary equipment.
>Culture is a state of awareness of the land's collective functioning. A culture premised on the destructive dominance of a single species can have but short duration.