Joseph Wood Krutch était un écrivain et critique américain, célébré pour ses œuvres sur l'écologie et l'environnement naturel du désert du Sud-Ouest. Ses écrits abordent souvent les préoccupations écologiques, l'histoire des paysages désertiques et leurs chroniques naturelles. Le style de Krutch se caractérise par une observation profonde et une défense passionnée de la conservation. Sa prose invite les lecteurs à contempler notre relation avec le monde naturel et à en apprécier la beauté délicate.
A classic book of nature photography, this large-format volume is designed to convey the spirit of American nature as so sensitively described by Thoreau. Eliot Porter, one of America's foremost nature photographers, blends short excerpts from Thoreau's Walden and many other works with 72 full-color photographs that perfectly reproduce the writer's sense of quiet drama.
Exploring profound existential questions, this book delves into the nature of identity and self-awareness. It invites readers to reflect on their own existence and the essence of being. Through thought-provoking insights and philosophical discourse, the narrative challenges conventional understandings and encourages a deeper contemplation of what it means to be human.
With their call for "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!," for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature. The Selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are Walden, his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments for nonconformity, "Civil Disobedience" and "Life Without Principle." A lifetime of brilliant observation of nature–and of himself–is recorded in selections from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Cape Cod, The Maine Woods, and the Journal.