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| Editors' Note | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Introduction to the 1990 Norton Book of Nature Writing | |
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| from The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne | |
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| from Letters from an American Farmer | |
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| from Sketches of Eighteenth century America | |
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| from Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, ... | |
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| from American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States | |
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| from The Journal of a Naturalist | |
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| from David Thompson's Narrative of His Explorations in Western America, 1784-1812 | |
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| from Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth | |
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| from The Journals of Lewis and Clark | |
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| from Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles | |
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| from Ornithological Biography | |
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| The Natural World | |
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| from The Natural History Prose Writings of John Clare | |
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| from Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians ... | |
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| from Nature | |
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| from The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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| from Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle | |
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| from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection | |
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| from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex | |
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| from Rural Hours | |
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| from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers | |
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| from Walden: or, Life in the Woods | |
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| Walking | |
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| from The Maine Woods | |
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| from Journals | |
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| from Glaucus; or, The Wonders of the Shore | |
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| from Specimen Days and Collect | |
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| from Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries | |
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| from Life on the Mississippi | |
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| from An Island Garden | |
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| In Mammoth Cave | |
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| A Wind-Storm in the Forests | |
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| The Water-Ouzel | |
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| My Friend the Pig | |
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| from Idle Days in Patagonia | |
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| from Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada | |
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| from Notebooks and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins | |
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| Out of Doors in February | |
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| Absence of Design in Nature | |
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| The Story of a Garden | |
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| from Wild Animals I Have Known | |
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| from Moths of the Limberlost | |
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| The Land of Little Rain | |
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| Nature | |
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| Hampshire | |
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| The End of Summer | |
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| from N by E | |
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| The Death of the Moth | |
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| from Out of Africa | |
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| Flowery Tuscany | |
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| Unknown Eros | |
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| Wave and Cliff | |
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| from The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod | |
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| from A Sand County Almanac | |
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| Love in the Desert | |
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| from Tarka the Otter | |
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| from An Almanac for Moderns | |
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| Butterflies | |
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| Northern Lights | |
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| The Lost Woods | |
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| A Slight Sound at Evening | |
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| The Ancient People and the Newly Come | |
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| A Family of Landscapes | |
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| from A River Runs Through It | |
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| from The Log from the Sea of Cortez | |
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| from The Heart of the Hunter | |
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| The Snakes Are About | |
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| The Marginal World | |
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| The Judgment of the Birds | |
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| from Black Boy | |
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| The Lively Petes of Parque Vargas | |
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| Glen Canyon Submersus | |
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| Coda: Wilderness Letter | |
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| from A Land | |
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| from The Inland Island | |
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| Death in the Open | |
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| The World's Biggest Membrane | |
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| The Common Night | |
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| The Dovekie and the Ocean Sunfish | |
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| Rain and the Rhinoceros | |
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| Mouse | |
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| from Never Cry Wolf | |
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| Moments and Journeys | |
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| Silver Snaffles | |
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| Of Red-Tailed Hawks and Black-Tailed Gnatcatchers | |
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| Beginnings | |
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| from The Tree | |
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| The Island of Auks | |
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| The Serpents of Paradise | |
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| The Great American Desert | |
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| from The Tree Where Man Was Born | |
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| from The Wind Birds | |
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| Pig Tales | |
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| A Very Warm Mountain | |
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| The Bird of Paradise | |
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| Ancient Forests of the Far West | |
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| Under the Snow | |
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| Hailing the Elusory Mountain Lion | |
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| Thoughts on Returning to the City After Five Months on a Mountain Where the Wolves Howled | |
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| Owning It All | |
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| An Entrance to the Woods | |
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| The Making of a Marginal Farm | |
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| The Way to Rainy Mountain | |
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| Gila Wilderness | |
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| Black Women and the Wilderness | |
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| High Tide in Tucson | |
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| Weeds Are Us | |
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| The Clan of One-Breasted Women | |
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| Baldwins | |
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| The Ecology of Magic | |
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| from The Ninemile Wolves | |
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| From The End of Nature | |
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| Built by Fire | |
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| Forest Beloved | |
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| Permissions | |
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| Index | |