The Oxbow (The Connecticut River near Northampton), by Thomas Cole, 1836.

The Oxbow (The Connecticut River near Northampton) (detail), by Thomas Cole, 1836. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1908.

Book of Nature

Volume 1, Number 3 | summer 2008

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Birds and Flowers of Spring and Summer, by Kano Eino, late seventeenth century.

Preamble

Messages in a Bottle

By Lewis H. Lapham

Nature is the only artist, the wonder of her collected works formed by their reflections in the mirrors of the human imagination.

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Factories at Asnieres, seen from the Quai de Clichy, by Vincent van Gogh, 1887.

Pattern Recognition

By Steven Stoll

Economic growth partakes in this magical thinking: the capacity of the environment remains constant at infinity.

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Map

Clearing the Inventory

Mining gold, chopping timber, tapping oil, fishing oceans.

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c. 1891 | Polynesia

Natural Resources

Paul Gauguin lives differently. More

1690 | London

Surfeit of Riches

The natural stock is infinite.More

1902 | Congo River

Time Travel

Joseph Conrad travels to a land before time.More

Charts & Graphs

Suburban Warfare

An index of suburban danger.

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Photograph of Rachel Carson

British author Aldous Huxley.

Photograph of American poet Countee Cullen.

Portrait of Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Photograph of American novelist Jack London.

Black and white photograph of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud with cigar.

Black and white photograph of Irish poet and writer W. B. Yeats.

Black and white photograph of former chancellor and Führer of Germany Adolf Hitler.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1790

William Shakespeare & Friedrich Nietzsche

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