The Nature of Things

In twenty-one engaging essays, Dallas Lore Sharp explores the natural world in lively and readable prose. He concentrates on the small scale of the natural world, a focus that highlights the grandness of nature as a whole. Sharp was born in 1870 in Haleyville, Cumberland County, New Jersey. After a childhood spent exploring the fields, forests, and swamps of South Jersey, he attended Brown University and eventually became Professor of English at Boston University. Writing in the first quart...