Naturalism

Naturalism was a mainly unorganized literary movement that sought to depict believable everyday reality, as opposed to such movements as Romanticism or Surrealism, in which subjects may receive highly symbolic, idealistic or even supernatural treatment.

Naturalism was an outgrowth of literary realism, a prominent literary movement in mid-19th-century France and elsewhere. Naturalistic writers were influenced by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. They often believed that one's heredity and social environment largely determine one's character. Whereas realism seeks only to describe subjects as
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Thérèse Raquin
Nana
Germinal
Sister Carrie
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Signet Classics)
The Call of the Wild
Of Mice and Men
La Bête humaine
The Jungle
The Age of Innocence
The Fortune of the Rougons (Les Rougon-Macquart, #1)
The Belly of Paris (Les Rougon-Macquart, #3)
The House of Mirth
L'Assommoir
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonMiddlemarch by George EliotWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Naturalism and Realism
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Sense and Goodness Without God by Richard C. Carrier
Best Naturalism Books
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Science and Spiritual Practices by Rupert SheldrakeTaoTuning by Adrian Emery30 Years Behind Bars by Karen  GedneyBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererThe Sacred Depths of Nature by Ursula Goodenough
Spiritual Naturalism
125 books — 54 voters
Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects by Norman F. JohnsonThe Life-Story of Insects by George H. CarpenterInsects and their Plants by Fr. James M. SullivanThe Wonders of Instinct by Jean-Henri FabreSocial Life in the Insect World by Jean-Henri Fabre
Notable Books in Entomology
6 books — 4 voters


John Muir
Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.
John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the woods is perpetual youth. In the woods we return to faith and reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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