This volume provides a sensitive and substantive overview of this fascinating subject. The author, an accomplished essayist and poet, examines the lives and works of Henry David Thoreau, Gilbert White, John Burroughs, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Edward Abbey. All of these writers demonstrated a keen interest in the natural world. They used their literary and scientific skills to enable others to share their interest. This delightful volume presents fresh approaches to nature and an abundance of memorable quotations.