On Extended Wings: American Birds and American Writing

For pleasure or as a spiritual discipline, bird-watching is “a lesson in respect and humility”

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the “iconic piece of literature” that changed the way we think of the world

Laura Dassow Walls: “We have misread Thoreau, tragically”

Henry David Thoreau, “A Walk to Wachusett”

Museum exhibition presents Thoreau’s journal as a monument to the examined life

Photos: A short tour of Walden Pond before Henry David Thoreau’s bicentennial

Sarah Manguso: Thoreau, Annie Dillard, William Maxwell, and “lessons of constraint” on 300 Arguments

William Cronon: The life, power, and magical prose of Loren Eiseley’s science and nature writing

Editor Bill McKibben on American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau