Children are natural poets. They see the extraordinary ... The creek and those crayfish opened up the world of poetry and curiosity — they made me love those creatures, those things in the ...

Hemingway’s passion for the natural world began in early childhood, fostered by his father, who not only taught his son to hunt and to fish, but also trained him to identify flora and fauna ...

ASHLAND Nature has always been a friend to Steve Holt. “As a young man, I often went to the hills for solace, roaming and thinking,” he said, noting he hunted and fished with his father, but that wasn ...

“Are you there?” asks Robert Hass, in the opening poem of The Apple Trees at Olema. “It’s summer. Are you smeared with the juice of cherries?” A poet known for his perceptive renderings of the natural ...