On Nature: The world as teacher

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

In this collection

• Circles
• Rumors from an Æolian Harp
• John James Audubon
• A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
• Locusts and Wild Honey
• To a Stray Fowl
• The Coming of Ph[Oe]Be
• Wild Life in Winter
• Free Love
• The Last Harvest
• Compensation
• The Skunk
• Friendship
• Under the Maples
• The Downy Woodpecker Poem
• Wendell Phillips before the Concord Lyceum
• Ways of Nature
• The Cowbird
• The Chewink
• The Fox
• The Grand Canyon of the Colorado
• Gifts
• A Breath of April
• Cape Cod
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