nature writing

In his 1901 book, American conservationist and nature writer John Muir promoted a transcendentalist idea of national parks as wild places of inspirational beauty.

Henry David Thoreau’s book Walden is considered one of the most important works of nature writing and became highly influential for the environmental movement.

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.