I need to find books about nature and the human condition?

Question

I have to write a paper on how my life reflects on a book about nature and the human condition, can anyone recommend me some good books?

Answer 1

I recommend anything by Jack London especially short stories in collections like Children of the Frost, Love of Life and stories like "To Build a Fire" you can read them all online here.... http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/LostFace/fire.html
http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/ChildrenFrost/
http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/LoveLife/

In fact you can read almost all of Jack Londons Novels and short stories online... http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/#Novels

London is hands down the best author to write about nature and the human condition, it's what he did best. Especially since the setting of many of his stories is the inhospitable frozen wastes of the far north, which starkly illustrates the human struggle for life in nature...

Answer 2

Read some of the trancendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson. From 'Nature'..."To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars." Ralph Waldo really had it going on, I tell ya. Stay away from his poetry, in my opinion. Kinda stinky. My fave essay is called 'Self Reliance', but 'Nature' seems to be the more obvious choice.

Answer 3

You might try Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. It's about a guy who answers an ad reading "Teacher seeks pupil, must have desire to save the world" only to encounter a telepathic gorilla (Ishmael). The two go on to engage in a series of conversations on how humanity came to it's current relationship with nature and where
it might possibly go.

Answer 4

Silent Spring
anything by Thomas Merton

Answer 5

Umm, Walden by HD Thoreau, The Lord of the Flies, any of Jack London's works, the poetry of Emerson and Wordsworth, Huck Finn by Mark Twain, Hemingway's works... Should I go on???