In recent years, the field of nature writing has flourished like a weed patch in a wet year.
Some writers describe the smallest detail of the leaf, the frog, the rock.
Others cannot help but draw metaphors for human society from what they see. Taking this line of observation a step further, the nature writer may contemplate nature as evidence of the role of a divine presence. Or he or she may be an advocate for the natural world who writes to change reader's attitudes - and the policies that threaten the balance between our use and abuse of the remaining wilderness.