Here are a few recommendations for great nature writing – some are free, some will take you elsewhere to buy the book…

All are well worth reading though, as they don’t just write about nature – but politics, capitalism, the economy and romance too…

The Pain You Feel Is Capitalism Dying

Reason 2: Damage Built Up in the Natural World
There is no such thing as an economy that exists without the physical world. The delusional idea that markets are separate from nature has guided mainstream economic policy for a long time — and now we are seeing the consequences in mass extinctions, loss of topsoils, climate change, collapse of fish stocks in the world ocean, rising levels of pollution, and more.

Writer: Joe Brewer

Feral

… the upland habitats we have chosen to conserve seem to be almost as dead, impoverished and lacking in structure or complexity as a parking lot… without trees, large predators, wild herbivores, rotting wood or many other components of a thriving ecosystem, these places retain only a few worn strands of the complex web of life.

Writer: George Monbiot

Silent Spring

How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?

Writer Rachel Carson

What Has Nature Ever Done For Us?

“In an interview, he was quoted as saying… natural resources are limited, and I need to take them before they’re gone.”

Writer: Tony Juniper

And to end this blog on nature writing we offer you ‘Death of the Naturalist’ – why is nature writing now so tame?

Can you make your nature writing great?