nature writing

The American diplomat and philologist George Perkins Marsh publishes Man and Nature.

In his 1791 work, Georg Ludwig Hartig advocates a new strategy for sustainable forest management.

Titus Lucretius Carus’s work is an extended reflection on the role of man within nature, influenced by Epicureanism.

John Evelyn advocates an extensive reforestation program and the systematic foundation of forests and parks in England, not least to support the British fleet dependent on wood resources.

Publication of the first sections of John James Audubon’s Birds of America.