Literary Landscapes & other environmental investigations

  • Home
  • Courses
    • ENVS 160
      • Posts
      • Project: Grand Coulee Dam
    • ENVS 220
      • Posts
      • Labs
    • ENVS 330
      • Posts
      • Project: Bonneville Dam
    • Environmental Theory
      • Posts
      • Project: Douglas County
  • Projects
    • Douglas County
    • Bonneville Dam
    • Grand Coulee Dam
    • Project Posts
    • Literary Landscapes of the American West
  • Thesis
    • English Thesis
    • Posts

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her

February 9, 2014 By Hannah Smay

“My dear, dear Sister! and this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; ’tis her privilege, Through all the years of this life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty…” ~William Wordsworth, […]

Filed Under: ENVS 160, Posts Tagged With: envsintro

Limitlessness

February 2, 2014 By Hannah Smay

When I was a junior in high school, I read an excerpt from a Wendell Berry essay all about limitlessness. Looking back, I’m almost positive that the excerpt was from Faustian Economics. Anyways, the argument of the essay was that Americans have this concept of the limitlessness of the land, of our resources. This perceived […]

Filed Under: ENVS 160, Posts Tagged With: envsintro

« Previous Page

About Me

I am graduating from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon with a BA in English and Environmental Studies. I explore the power stories have to render and transform places, people, and systems. Through my undergraduate scholarship, I aim to better articulate the relationships between humanity and place by examining lessons from the humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences in conversation.

RSS High Country News

  • When colleges let down Indigenous students May 18, 2018
  • Colorado says fishing next to private land is trespassing May 17, 2018
  • Timber is Oregon’s biggest carbon polluter May 16, 2018
  • The playground of Lake Powell isn’t worth drowned canyons May 15, 2018
  • ‘Unlikely hikers’ gain traction May 14, 2018

Recent Posts

  • Grand Finales & A Good Soundtrack May 1, 2017
  • Futures: A Final Thesis Post April 30, 2017
  • Twice the Fun: Reflecting on the Double Thesis April 30, 2017

Categories

Search

Digital Scholarship Multisite © 2018 · Lewis & Clark College · Log in