Essays, poetry, lyrics

An Appalachian reader, if you will, with writings inspired by the outdoors. E-mail your favorite passage, poetry, lyrics or other writings from someone who’s captured the spirit of the trail in words. We’ll try to include it here.

If Yeats Had been a Backpacker

Henry David Thoreau on walking

Benton MacKaye on an Appalachian regional plan

John Steinbeck on traveling

William O. Douglas on the essence of mountains

Steve Sherman and Julia Older, on the wonder of it all

John Muir on the solitude of Tennessee’s mountains

Aldo Leopold on the meaning of conservation

Ernst Banfield’s “On the A.T.”

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