to-nature

Updated: May 5, 2025

But the back- to-nature books both the sound ones and those shameless exposures of the private emotions of ground hogs and turtles that call themselves nature books are the most traditional of all. For they plunge directly into what might be called the adventures of the American sub-consciousness. It is the sub-consciousness that carries tradition into literature.

Henry Seidel Canby - Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism