Living in the 21st century, it's easy to take the National Parks, conservation, and environmental philosophy for granted. This wasn't always the case. In the 1800s while the country was in the midst of the Industrial Revolution, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and John Muir helped people to realize how important the natural world is.
Now is a wonderful time to be outdoors, these books will help inspire a love of the wilderness, adventure, and preservation of our precious natural resources.
Publisher Gibbs Smith has created a wonderful series of their works, hardcover volumes. Modern and beautifully designed, the books are sure to motivate future generations to continue the work they started.
The Naturalists
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- Walden Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
- Our National Parks by John Muir
