On Nature

Philosophy in the open air — Thoreau at Walden, Emerson in the woods, and the thinkers who found their first principles in the natural world.

The world as teacher

In this collection

• Biographical Sketch
• The Northern Shrike
• New England Reformers
• Winter Memories
• The Poet
• Fresh Fields
• The Crow
• The Story of my Boyhood and Youth
• Some Tumultuous Little Rill
• The Moon
• Natural History of Massachusetts
• The Atlantides
• My First Summer in the Sierra
• The Partridge
• Boat Song
• The Opossum
• Smoke in Winter
• The Robin
• Love
• Milton
• Cape Cod
• The Fox
• Sympathy
• Stanzas Written at Walden

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