What are some good authors writing about walking, forests, nature, wandering etc.?

What are some good authors writing about walking, forests, nature, wandering etc.?

I know Gary Snyder, Muir and Thoreau, there's also Deakin and Macfarlane.

There were these little known poets called the Romantics. Give them a try.

In case someone would ask - I've already read Into the Wild by Krakauer, maybe I'll try his book on Everest too.

Thanks, I remember reading some time ago about Wordsworth, and I got Lyrical Ballads on my Kindle already, I'll give it a try. What are other English/American poets that have written a lot about it?

Try Gerard Manley Hopkins.

GLORY be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.

I CAUGHT this morning morning’s minion, king-
dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!

Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!

No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.

This is called Pied Beauty
And this is called The Windhover.

Forgot to clarify.

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Robert Walser. Read The Walk and be forever changed.

Zarathustra if you like mountains.

Ota Pavel

Andreas Hartknopf by Karl Philipp Moritz

Alfred Wainwright

Thanks!
I've read one of his books, it was nice. maybe I'll buy another, but not now, maybe closer to the end of the year, I need to save the money.
Thanks, especially the Alfred Wainwright sounds interesting.

Sprung verse, with Hopkins' enthusiastic alliteration and repetition, is so over the top and happy that I can't help but feel like some disillusioned kid being shouted at

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J.A. Baker: The Peregrine is nonfiction but damn well written nevertheless

It sounds interesting. Thanks!

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The Dharma bums contains long sections of mountain climbing and forest fire observation that may be what you're looking for.

Thanks, I'll try it too, should I read On the Road before?

Don't read Kerouac. Save your time.

The big 3 of American nature writing are Thoreau (Walden), Aldo Leopold (A Sand County Almanac) and Edward Abbey (Desert Solitaire)

Thanks, both of the books you've mentioned sounds interesting, going to add them to my to-read list.

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