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- Loons Forever: Writings on Nature and Nature Conservation - Environmental education through nature writing on natural history, nature interpretation, environmental ethics, conservation policy and heritage values, including nature stories, fables, essays, plays, songs and animated poems.
- Landmarks of American Nature Writing - University of Virginia catalogue of a collection of books, manuscripts, maps, engravings, and photographs related to nature writing about the state from the Seventeenth through Twentieth Centuries.
- Nature Study, Nature Writing: Past and Present - Brief bibliography by the Library of Congress.
- Landmarks of American Nature Writing - University of Virginia catalogue of a collection of books, manuscripts, maps, engravings, and photographs related to nature writing about the state from the Seventeenth through Twentieth Centuries.
- Nature Writing from the Northern Tier - Annotated bibliography of books written about the natural world between Lake Michigan and the Rocky Mountains.
- The Nature of Writing - Classes teaching the basics of nature, food and memoir writing.
- The John Burroughs Association - Annually awards medals to authors of natural history books and nature essays. Lists of award winners and nature books for young readers, and membership information.
- Robert Winkler - Nature Writing - Excerpts, reviews, bird photos, and links from the author of "Going Wild: Adventures with Birds in the Suburban Wilderness."
- Braintique: The Natural Way to Write - A process and system for helping people become better writers. The site includes exercises, examples, and information about descriptive writing and metaphors.
- The Nature Pages - Reviews and news about current nature writing and natural history books.
Wikipedia Articles
- Nature writing - Nature writing is traditionally defined as nonfiction prose writing about the natural environment. Nature writing often draws heavily on scientific information and facts about the natural world; at the same time, it is frequently written in the first person and incorporates personal observations of and philosophical reflections upon nature.
- Undeciphered writing systems - Many undeciphered writing systems are prehistoric in nature, dating from several thousand years BC, though some more modern examples do exist. The difficulty in deciphering these systems can arise from a lack of known descendents or from the languages being entirely isolated, from insufficient examples of text having been found and even (such as in ...
- Posthuman (critical theory) - The posthuman or post-human, in critical theory, is a speculative being that represents or seeks to enact a re-writing of what is generally conceived of as human. It is the object of posthumanist criticism, which critically questions Enlightenment humanism, a branch of humanist philosophy which claims that human nature is a universal state from which human being emerge; human nature is autonomous, rational, capable of free will, and unified in itself as the apex of existence.
- Coming Out Spiritually - Christian de la Huerta began writing Coming Out Spiritually: the next step as a response to the need he saw in the LGBT and Queer community for bringing together queer identity with the nature of spirituality. During his research, the book evolved in part into a discussion of what de la Huerta sees as ten archetypes found within the queer spiritual nature.
- Orléans heresy - The nature of the Orléans heresy is plagued by conflict among sources. Paul of Saint-Père de Chartres writing nearly 50 years after the trail was personally acquainted with some of the principals.