TO PEATTIE, NATURE WAS THE MIRACLE

The Boston Globe | October 31, 2000| | Copyright

Donald Culross Peattie was a different sort of nature writer.

His "An Almanac for Moderns" was published in 1935, in the depths of the Depression. He lived in rural Illinois at the time of writing, and the devastation of the Dust Bowl was not far away. The Great War was still fresh in memory, with its shattered landscapes and poisoned air. It was not a time in which it was easy to be optimistic.

The lofty moralizing of earlier nature writers like John Burroughs and John Muir no longer resonated with a generation who had seen "the trees blasted by the great guns and the bird's feeding on men's ...

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