reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle” (Camus
1966: 297).
- Depending on the thinker, anxiety may be likened to or grouped with
dread, anguish, or nausea.
- Some readers may wish to contrast my argument with more optimistic
assessments of nature writing’s ability to reconnect subject and environ-
ment in a holistic manner. See, for example, Kandi Tayebi’s compassionate
discussion of the ways nature writing draws us into “an intense relation-
ship with the environment that unites the intellectual, physical, and
emotional aspects of our being” (Tayebi 2003: 1).
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