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Natural Acts

SEEING AND BEING IN THE NATURAL WORLD


Diane Ackerman We Are All a Part of Nature
Deb Aronson The Nurture of Nature
Victor Hernández Cruz Problems with Hurricanes
Annie Dillard Seeing
Anita Endrezze The Girl Who Loved the Sky
William Least Heat-Moon A List of Nothing in Particular
Linda Hogan Hearing Voices
Gerard Manley Hopkins God's Grandeur
N. Scott Momaday The Way to Rainy Mountain
Joyce Carol Oates Against Nature
Henry David Thoreau Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud

NATURAL AND UNNATURAL PROCESSES


Diane Ackerman Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall
Charles Darwin Understanding Natural Selection
Robert Frost Birches
Gerard Manley Hopkins Spring and Fall
James H. Jeans Why the Sky Looks Blue
Jessica Mitford Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain
Alexander Petrunkevitch The Spider and the Wasp
Lewis Thomas On Natural Death

RELATING TO ANIMALS


Elizabeth Bishop The Fish
Peggy Carlson Why We Don't Need Animal Experimentation
Vicki Hearne What's Wrong with Animal Rights?
Barry Lopez My Horse
Heloisa Sabin Animal Research Saves Human Lives
Peter Singer Animal Liberation
William Stafford Traveling through the Dark
Henry David Thoreau The Battle of the Ants
Alice Walker Am I Blue?
James Wright A Blessing

ENVIRONMENTALISM AND ETHICS


Wendell Berry Home of the Free
Rachel Carson Fable for Tomorrow
Rachel Carson The Obligation to Endure
Al Gore Environmentalism of the Spirit
Garrett Hardin Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor
Jamaica Kincaid The Ugly Tourist
Donella Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, and Jorgen Randers The Limits to Growth
Eric Schlosser What We Eat
Peter Singer The Singer Solution to World Poverty
Wallace Stegner Wilderness Letter
Edward O. Wilson Is Humanity Suicidal?
William Wordsworth The world is too much with us
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