7Michael P. Branch (ed.), Reading the earth : new directions in the study of literature and environment, xiv.
8Cf. Lawrence Buell- The enviroment imagination: Thoreau, nature writing and the formation of American culture, Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1995.
9Michael P. Branch ( ed. ), Reading the earth : new directions in the study of literature and environment, Moscow, Idaho : University of Idaho Press, 1998, xii.