Robert Macfarlane responds to readers' nominations of the great classics of British nature writing.

Concluding his series on literature and landscape, Robert Macfarlane argues that classic works of nature writing can help us rediscover values that are not commercial, but local and hopeful.

Robert Macfarlane sees Essex through the hawk-eyes of JA Baker.

Robert Macfarlane on how Tim Robinson read messages from history in Aran limestone.

Jim Perrin's radical, joyful essays deny the heresy that nature is a luxury, argues Robert Macfarlane.

Robert Macfarlane sings the praises of Anne Dillard, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

Robert Macfarlane revels in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's writing about flight.

Robert Macfarlane on why Willa Cather fell in love with the prairies.

Raymond Carver was a late convert to the transcendent power of nature, writes Robert Macfarlane.

Robert Macfarlane on Barry Lopez, whose language grips an Arctic wilderness now under threat.

In the first of a series of articles about writers and landscapes, Robert Macfarlane argues that we must pay more careful attention to nature.