nature lover

plural nature lovers · alternative nature-lover

1. A person who has an intense interest in the natural world, especially one who frequents natural places for enjoyment and recreation.

   In spite of the eminently successful fiction that she wrote, if Gene Stratton Porter is to occupy any permanent place in the history of American letters, that place will no doubt be established by her work as a nature lover and a nature writer and photographer.

   1980, Bertrand F. Richards, “Preface”, in Gene Stratton Porter, Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 9

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   But though you may be certain that your religion or political party or sport is the best, you will usually admit that there are many people who do not agree with you and that they are entitled to their opinion. This is not true in the case of the nature lover. To the militant nature lover (and every nature lover I ever met was militant in his love of nature) one is either a nature lover or one is unenlightened; there is no other alternative.

   1944, Leonard Dubkin, “Enter Pauline”, in The Murmur of Wings, Whittlesey House, →OCLC, page 139

   "In nature, lightning strikes occasionally cause small, localized fires that burn away the underbrush. The policy has been to put out those fires. So now there's plenty of underbrush, which is the perfect fuel for massive destruction. Hundreds and thousands of acres have been destroyed, lives lost, because we didn’t trust nature to do its job." Actually, the policy began with nature lover Teddy Roosevelt.

   2015, Lisa Lutz, “2000 Old Forge, New York”, in How to Start a Fire (Fiction), Mariner Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 74

   This house in McLean, Va., has just about everything a nature lover desires: soothing sounds of the Potomac River, a sylvan setting with countless species of birds and other wildlife, access to hiking, fishing and canoeing — and all within a half-hour of downtown Washington and minutes from the Beltway and George Washington Parkway.

   2021 November 12, Kathy Orton, “Nature lovers house in McLean, Va., for sale for $7 million”, in Washington Post