Reading path · 1850–1910

First Noticings

How nature writers first taught Americans to look closely at the ground around them. Thoreau, Burroughs, and the prose that started a century of conservation.

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"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Reading 1

A passage from this path

Custodia organizations using the in-app Library can open the full curated readings, reflections, and discussion prompts. The public surface here previews the path so you can decide whether it's one your community would benefit from working through together.

Reading 2

A passage from this path

Custodia organizations using the in-app Library can open the full curated readings, reflections, and discussion prompts. The public surface here previews the path so you can decide whether it's one your community would benefit from working through together.

Reading 3

A passage from this path

Custodia organizations using the in-app Library can open the full curated readings, reflections, and discussion prompts. The public surface here previews the path so you can decide whether it's one your community would benefit from working through together.

Reading 4

A passage from this path

Custodia organizations using the in-app Library can open the full curated readings, reflections, and discussion prompts. The public surface here previews the path so you can decide whether it's one your community would benefit from working through together.

Reading 5

A passage from this path

Custodia organizations using the in-app Library can open the full curated readings, reflections, and discussion prompts. The public surface here previews the path so you can decide whether it's one your community would benefit from working through together.

Reading 6

A passage from this path

Custodia organizations using the in-app Library can open the full curated readings, reflections, and discussion prompts. The public surface here previews the path so you can decide whether it's one your community would benefit from working through together.

Reading 7

A passage from this path

Custodia organizations using the in-app Library can open the full curated readings, reflections, and discussion prompts. The public surface here previews the path so you can decide whether it's one your community would benefit from working through together.

In the app

Open the full Library →

Custodia members can read every passage, save reflections, and share paths with their volunteers and board.

A note from us

These resources are free because the work is hard enough already.

Custodia is the software we wished existed for the organizations doing this work — quiet, careful, built around how stewardship actually moves through a year. If you run one, we'd love to show you what we've been making.