When I was growing up, the adventure books that I read influenced how I regarded and interacted with nature.
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Tag Archives: Nature
Novels with Waterfalls and Secret Caves
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Tables Turned", caves, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lucy Fitch Perkins, Rob Roy, Scotch Twins, Sir Water Scott, Two Towers, William Wordsworth Comments closed
Beauty Breaks Like a Flash from Heaven
William Cowper invokes St. Paul’s encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus to capture his sense of God in nature.
Wild Turkey Sighting in Tennessee
After unexpectedly encountering a flock of wild turkeys, I had to share these three wild turkey poems.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Field Notes", "these wild turkeys", "Wild Turkeys on the Road Near Home", Mark Seth Lender, Max Reif, Tim Poland, wild turkeys Comments closed
The Pleasure of a Pathless Wood
For Americans, wilderness is a more unkempt affair than it for Europeans.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Alexander Pope, Childe Harold, Evangeline, forests, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lord Byron, Romanticism, wilderness, Windsor Forest Comments closed
Out of the Blackness Every Morning
Many of Mary Oliver’s poems, including “The Sun,” function well as Easter poems.
Pesticides vs. Sweetness and Wings
Monarch butterflies and bees are in grave danger. Poems by Scott Bates and Mary Oliver remind us what we will lose if we don’t move to protect them.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "The Underside of Heaven's Gates" endangered species, bees, environmental devastation, happiness, hive collapse, Mary Oliver, monarch butterflies, Scott Bates Comments closed
Marianne’s Passion for Dead Leaves
In “Sense and Sensibility,” Austen gets us to reflect on the attractions and dangers of Nature.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Classicism, James Thomson, Jane Austen, picturesque, Romanticism, Seasons, Sense and Sensibility Comments closed