An elegant, illustrated book of poetry, excerpts, and musings from the writers and philosophers who contemplated nature's beauty and mystery. From Emerson's essays on its wisdom, to the Romantic poets' reveries on its power and awe, this illustrated collection brings together enduring insights on that which connects us to the earth and to each other.
The bold illustrations are a visual ode to nature and inspired by excerpts from Emerson, Thoreau, Wordsworth, Frost, Shelley, Rossetti, Cather, Yeats, Machado, Keats, Verlaine, Whitman, Teasdale, Hughes and more.