In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. These inspiring wordsmiths are scholars, spiritual seekers, conservationists, scientists, novelists, and explorers. They defy easy categorization, yet they all share a bold authenticity that makes their work both distinct and universal. Featured writers include: Dorothy Wordsworth, Susan Fenimore Cooper,...

Language, like culture, is interdependent with an ecology of place, and the language we use helps to shape our cultural understanding and ways of relating to these ecological places. This thesis explores the ways language, both written and oral, can weave us into the land, and perhaps, too, how land can weave us into language. "Land" in this thesis is referring to the ecological community within a place, and includes the perspective of interrelationship...