This thematically-arranged reader for first-year composition presents 56 provocative readings that encourage students to think about how they interact with the natural world and how the act of writing affects that interaction. The selections address not only traditional environmental concerns, but also issues related to recreation, survival, consumption, and other topics of interest to college students.

1 Reading, Writing, and Defining Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature and Language from Nature

William Cronon The Trouble with Wilderness

Ted Kerasote What We Talk about when We Talk about Wilderness

Barry Lopez Landscape and Narrative

Gary Snyder Cultured or Crabbed

Film: The Mosquito Coast

Luther Standing Bear Nature

Joyce Carol Oates Against Nature

Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes

Louis Owens The American Indian Wilderness

Ursula Le Guin Woman/Wilderness

2 Thinking Ecologically

Fritjof Capra Ecological Literacy from The Web of Life

Aldo Leopold Thinking Like a Mountain from A Sand County Almanac

Edward Abbey Eco Defense

Robert F Kennedy, Jr The American Wilderness: Why it Matters

Floyd Red Crow Westerman Chief Seattle Speaks

bell hooks Touching the Earth

3 Playing and Relaxing in Nature

John Muir Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park

Theodore Roosevelt Wilderness Reserves, Yellowstone Park

Rick Bass Why I Hunt

Joe Balaz Anything You Kill, you Gada Eat

Pam Houston The Company of Men

Lorian Hemingway The Young Woman and the Sea

Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes

Jimmy Carter Kilimanjaro

Mark Foo Occurrence at Waimea Bay

Daniel Duane from Caught Inside

Stephen Gorman Trekking Tropical Trails

James Campbell Paddling a Watery Wilderness

Don Stap Gliding through The Glades

4 Consuming Nature

Alan Thein Durning The Conundrum of Consumption

Joy Williams Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp

Paul R Ehrlich and Anne H Ehrlich Food: The Ultimate Resource

Wendell Berry The Pleasures of Eating

Alice Walker We Alone

Annie Dillard The Deer at Providencia from Teaching a Stone to Talk

Lame Deer Talking to the Owls and Butterflies

5 Surviving Nature

Jon Krakauer The Devils Thumb

Art Davidson from Minus 148: The Winter Ascent of Mt McKinley

Steven Callahan To Weave a World from Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea

Zora Neale Hurston from Their Eyes Were Watching God

Jack London To Build a Fire

Film: The Edge

Pier Porrino Killer Wave Survivors

Cynthia Dusel-Bacon Come Quick! Im Being Eaten by a Bear

6 Living With/In Nature

Henry David Thoreau Where I Lived and What I lived For from Walden

Kurt Vonnegut To Hell with Marriage

Film: Jeremiah Johnson

Edward Abbey The First Morning from Desert Solitaire

Rick Bass from Winter: Notes from Montana

Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Simon J Ortiz from From Sand Creek: Rising in This Heart Which Is Our America

William Cronon This Land is Your Land: Turning to Nature in a Time of Crisis

7 Our Future in/with/of Nature

Terry Tempest Williams A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness

Janisse Ray Second Coming from Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

Gary Snyder Coming into the Watershed

Rachel Carson The Other Road

Wendell Berry Nature as Measure

Douglas Adams Sifting Through The Embers from Last Chance to See

Archie Carr Eden Changes from A Naturalist in Florida: A Celebration of Eden

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1 Reading, Writing, and Defining Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature and Language from Nature

William Cronon The Trouble with Wilderness

Ted Kerasote What We Talk about when We Talk about Wilderness

Barry Lopez Landscape and Narrative

Gary Snyder Cultured or Crabbed

Film: The Mosquito Coast

Luther Standing Bear Nature

Joyce Carol Oates Against Nature

Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes

Louis Owens The American Indian Wilderness

Ursula Le Guin Woman/Wilderness

2 Thinking Ecologically

Fritjof Capra Ecological Literacy from The Web of Life

Aldo Leopold Thinking Like a Mountain from A Sand County Almanac

Edward Abbey Eco Defense

Robert F Kennedy, Jr The American Wilderness: Why it Matters

Floyd Red Crow Westerman Chief Seattle Speaks

bell hooks Touching the Earth

3 Playing and Relaxing in Nature

John Muir Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park

Theodore Roosevelt Wilderness Reserves, Yellowstone Park

Rick Bass Why I Hunt

Joe Balaz Anything You Kill, you Gada Eat

Pam Houston The Company of Men

Lorian Hemingway The Young Woman and the Sea

Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes

Jimmy Carter Kilimanjaro

Mark Foo Occurrence at Waimea Bay

Daniel Duane from Caught Inside

Stephen Gorman Trekking Tropical Trails

James Campbell Paddling a Watery Wilderness

Don Stap Gliding through The Glades

4 Consuming Nature

Alan Thein Durning The Conundrum of Consumption

Joy Williams Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp

Paul R Ehrlich and Anne H Ehrlich Food: The Ultimate Resource

Wendell Berry The Pleasures of Eating

Alice Walker We Alone

Annie Dillard The Deer at Providencia from Teaching a Stone to Talk

Lame Deer Talking to the Owls and Butterflies

5 Surviving Nature

Jon Krakauer The Devils Thumb

Art Davidson from Minus 148: The Winter Ascent of Mt McKinley

Steven Callahan To Weave a World from Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea

Zora Neale Hurston from Their Eyes Were Watching God

Jack London To Build a Fire

Film: The Edge

Pier Porrino Killer Wave Survivors

Cynthia Dusel-Bacon Come Quick! Im Being Eaten by a Bear

6 Living With/In Nature

Henry David Thoreau Where I Lived and What I lived For from Walden

Kurt Vonnegut To Hell with Marriage

Film: Jeremiah Johnson

Edward Abbey The First Morning from Desert Solitaire

Rick Bass from Winter: Notes from Montana

Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Simon J Ortiz from From Sand Creek: Rising in This Heart Which Is Our America

William Cronon This Land is Your Land: Turning to Nature in a Time of Crisis

7 Our Future in/with/of Nature

Terry Tempest Williams A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness

Janisse Ray Second Coming from Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

Gary Snyder Coming into the Watershed

Rachel Carson The Other Road

Wendell Berry Nature as Measure

Douglas Adams Sifting Through The Embers from Last Chance to See

Archie Carr Eden Changes from A Naturalist in Florida: A Celebration of Eden

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