Naturalistic literature was produced in France in the second half of the 19th century, and gradually prevailed in the late 19th century and 20s around the world.
1. Walden
Walden is a collection of essays by American naturalist writer Henry David Thoreau, and is also Thoreau's world-famous collection of autobiographical essays, which is considered one of the ten best books to read in his life. The essay mainly describes what the author saw, heard and felt when he lived alone in Walden Lake for two years, the book is not only a book about nature and life, but also a book about self-exploration and philosophy of life. The relationship between society, showing the harmony and symbiosis between man and nature, and the content is rich, far-reaching, and the language is vivid, and the book has also had a profound impact since its inception, and is considered a classic work of transcendentalism.
2. Sand Township Yearbook
The Sand Country Almanac is a collection of nature essays and philosophical essays written by Aldo Leopold, an internationally renowned scientist and environmentalist in the United States. The result of experiencing and thinking about nature is a work that describes the relationship between man and nature, the book is in the order of the four seasons, through the author's meticulous observation and recording, mainly to show the reader the richness and complexity of the natural world, and at the same time contains a lot of the author's thinking and philosophical views, calling for human beings to protect nature, respect the natural environment, the content is infectious, full of wisdom, is considered a classic of nature literature, known as the bible of ecological thought.
3. Silent Spring
Silent Spring is the work of American marine biologist Rachel J. Carson's popular science book, the book begins in the form of an allegory, through a village due to the excessive use of chemicals and fertilizers caused by environmental pollution, causing a catastrophe of the change process, conveying the harm of pesticides to the human environment, highlighting the theme of environmental protection, the book since its publication, but also triggered the United States and even the world's attention to environmental issues, various environmental protection organizations have been established, leading the development of the world environmental protection movement, and best-selling all over the world, in the field of environmental protection has a milestone significance, for the promotion and popularization of environmental awareness has a very far-reaching impact, but also considered to be one of the ten books that shocked the world。