@kyebarker You might also check out Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes (and if you extend "nature" to human nature, then you can pull in her work on gender, esp. *The Great Lawsuit*)

@HesterBlum @C19Americanists I’m currently researching & planning a podcast on Margaret Fuller’s “Summer on the Lakes, in 1843,” a less often read but interesting work when placed in context of Transcendentalist nature writing, antebellum women writers, westward settlement, etc