I. Writing to read. Keeping a journal -- Writing essays -- Writing summaries -- Writing arguments -- Gathering and using information. II. Reading to write. Created worlds. The silent neighborhood / Annie Dillard -- O rotten Gotham / Tom Wolfe -- Summer solstice, New York City / Sharon Olds -- My neighborhood / Ishmael Reed -- The problem of place in America / Ray Oldenburg -- Enclosed-encyclopedic-endured. One week at the Mall of America / David Guterson -- No rms, jungle vu / Melissa Greene -- To my sister / William Wordsworth -- Daybreak / Bill McKibben -- Rolling naked in the morning dew / Pattiann Rogers -- New Year's Day / Barbara Kingsolver -- The farthest distance between two points / Ted Leeson
Gone back into the earth / Barry Lopez -- The Great American desert / Edward Abbey -- Life on the rocks: the Galápagos / Annie Dillard -- Dogs, and the tug of life / Edward Hoagland -- Am I blue? / Alice Walker -- My horse and I / N. Scott Momaday -- Alamo Canyon Creek / Kathleen Dean Moore -- Sleeping with animals / Maxine Kumin -- The fish / Elizabeth Bishop -- The bird and the machine / Loren Eiseley -- Living like weasels / Annie Dillard -- The rains / Jane Goodall -- Five a.m. in the pinewoods / Mary Oliver -- Where I lived and what I lived for / Henry David Thoreau -- Once more to the lake / E.B. White -- The solace of open spaces / Gretel Ehrlich -- Sacred and ancestral ground / N. Scott Momaday -- The sow in the river / Mary Clearman Blew -- On going home / Joan Didion
Settling down / Scott Russell Sanders -- Expostulation and reply and The tables turned / William Wordsworth -- Walking / Henry David Thoreau -- God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Clear night / Charles Wright -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Against nature / Joyce Carol Oates -- Nonmoral nature / Stephen Jay Gould -- The Tucson Zoo / Lewis Thomas -- A field of silence / Annie Dillard -- The beautiful places / Kathleen Norris -- A wilderness condition / Roderick Nash -- A life in our hands / Keith Ervin -- Axe-in-hand / Aldo Leopold -- Unchopping a tree / W.S. Merwin -- Elegy for a forest clear-cut by the Weyerhaeuser Company / David Wagoner
Old growth and the media / Mark Hatfield -- Trouble in Mill City / David Seideman -- Forest of voices / Chris Anderson -- Sootfall and fallout / E.B. White -- Elixirs of death / Rachel Carson -- Ships in the desert / Al Gore -- Under the sun / Samuel W. Matthews -- The end of nature / Bill McKibben -- Greenhouse earth / Dixy Lee Ray -- A semidesert with a desert heart / Marc Reisner -- Save the whales, screw the shrimp / Joy Williams -- Prosperity / Gifford Pinchot -- Hetch Hetchy Valley / John Muir -- A statement of San Francisco's side of the Hetch-Hetchy Reservoir matter / Marsden Manson -- The land ethic / Aldo Leopold -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett
Is nature too good for us? / Willliam Tucker -- Rethinking environmentalism / Ron Arnold -- Women, home, and community: the struggle in an urban environment / Cynthia Hamilton -- Getting along with nature / Wendell Berry -- Traveling through the dark / William Stafford -- Out of your car, off your horse / Wendell Berry -- Duty of care / John McPhee -- Shepherds of the Labrador Front / Paul Watson -- Earth first! / Dave Foreman -- Foresters without diplomas / Wangari Maathai -- The clan of one-breasted women / Terry Tempest Williams -- The idea of a garden / Michael Pollan.
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