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Nature Writing (Prose (Terry T Williams (Strong Female Character, Meaning…
Nature Writing
Prose
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Rich - makes the Maine woods into a place, also explores the intersection of family life and nature writing
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Terry T Williams
Terry Tempest Williams and Barry Lopez share the idea of staying open to the truth of nature, rather than trying to conquer it. The conquering mindset fails to understand the authentic self, and thus, the authentic sense of place.
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Kerouac: "On The Road" excerpt expresses an obsession with Mexico...the land at the END of the road...a promised land, imbued with a mysticism
similar to the Arctic North being revered as a mythical land at the end of the road...a potential paradise at the extreme of Earth's latitude lines and climactic conditions
Momaday
"The Solace of Open Spaces" - barren landscape of Wyoming reflected in silence of Wyoming folk...similar to the ways in which the Great Plains influenced the Kiowa people
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There are 2 kinds of suffering - the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that ends suffering
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Man Made of Words,
Words are all we have
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Visual Art
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"Poemage"
Visual rendering of linguistic devices and relationships that exist in classic poems... "a beautiful mess."
Slime Mold
sweet tunes
the idea of walking: by walking, what exchanges between humans and the natural world take place? Energy, experience, noise, and more?
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Silkworm Sphere
Umwelt:(in ethology) the world as it is experienced by a particular organism.
‘the worlds they perceive, their Umwelten, are all different’
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Poetry
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Robert
Frost
The Nature Writing cannon 
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Kinsey
*Kinsey & Joly similar to Frost in their sentiment...describing the subjective, human experience through nature and seasonal change
*Kinsey & Joly similar to Basho in their style of language...sequencing of nouns, verbs and adjectives
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Science?
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Robin Wall Kimmerer
Lopez, Kimmerer, and Beston are learned naturalists/ecologists who use their scientific knowledge as a conduit for wonder.
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