Abstract
Literature has for more than a century been Americans' primary means of informal education about nature, and Edwin Way Teale's four books on the seasons, published between 1951 and 1965, constituted a high point in that period. With their immense popularity and rapid eclipse by environmentalism, they offer a window on postwar views and experiences and also show continuity and change in perspectives across the environmental divide. Literature still served as an inducement to conservation and still used natural history to organize experience in nature and reflections on its meaning. It discarded, though, the objective, detached narrators of Teale's generation, focused less on wild nature and more on humans in nature, and with global warming and biodiversity loss is taking on new themes and even new forms.
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