4 Books Written by Early Naturalists

         

4  Books Written by Early Naturalists

 Living with Nature book collection of Dr Abe V Rotor

Four Levels of Understanding and Experiencing Nature:

• On the level of Philosophy - Walden
• Experiential or in situ - Adventures in Nature
• Point of view on Natural History - Flowering Earth
• Biographical form - Social Life in the Insect World 

Simple living in a natural environment

Walden is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and—to some degree—a manual for self-reliance. Originally published: August 9, 1854. "Thoreau is our national conscience: the voice in the American wilderness, urging us to be true to ourselves and to live in harmony with nature."

A compilation of 31 on-the-spot essays in easy 

reading style on adventures in Nature 

Edwin Way Teale was an American naturalist, photographer, and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. Teale's works serve as primary source material documenting environmental conditions across North America from 1930 - 1980. He is perhaps best known for his series The American Seasons, four books documenting over 75,000 miles (121,000 km) of automobile travel across North America following the changing seasons.  Teale and his wife, Nellie, planned on breaking away from the city and becoming nature writers, a dream both had held for many years. (Internet)

The origin and significance of plant life, 

"... much more than the fascinating story of plant life." - Audubon 

Flowering Earth is an extraordinary work in which Peattie explores the origin and significance of plant life with an unmatched sense of astonishment and reflection. According to The New York Times, his prose in Flowering Earth is pervaded by a continuous sense of beauty and illuminative insight, and is hailed as a piece for people who are refreshed by any sort of emancipation from the trivial.” It is a book about the resilience of life itself, the mystery and power of the unseen energy appearing in the visible world in a marvelous variety of forms." --Audubon Naturalist News

"Fabre's scholarly achievement lies in writing about the lives

 of insects in biographical form." 

Henri Fabre (1823 –1915) was a popular teacher, physicist, chemist and botanist. However, he is probably best known for his findings in the field of entomology, the study of insects, and is considered to be the father of modern entomology. His Souvenirs Entomologies is a series of texts on insects and arachnids. Much of his enduring popularity is due to his marvelous teaching ability and his manner of writing about the lives of insects in biographical form, which he preferred to a clinically detached, journalistic mode of recording. He influenced the later writings of Charles Darwin, who called Fabre "an inimitable observer".

Acknowledgement" Internet for images and text references ~ outstanding