Sick of nature

Today's nature writing is too often pious, safe, boring. Haven't these people re-read Thoreau lately?

By David Gessner

August 1, 2004

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I AM SICK of nature. Sick of trees, sick of birds, sick of the ocean. It's been almost four years now, four years of sitting quietly in my study and sipping tea and contemplating the migratory patterns of the semipalmated plover. Four years of writing essays praised as "quiet" by quiet magazines. Four years of having neighborhood children ask their ... (Full Article: 1996 Words)