Nature Faker
The nature fakers controversy was an early 20th-century American literary debate highlighting the conflict between science and sentiment in popular nature writing. The debate involved important United States, American literary, environmental and political figures. Dubbed the "War of the Naturalists" by ''The New York Times'', it revealed seemingly irreconcilable contemporary views of the natural world: while some nature writers of the day argued as to the veracity of their examples of anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic wild animals, others questioned an animal's ability to adapt, learn, teach, and reason. The controversy arose from a new literary movement, which followed a growth of interest in the natural world beginning in the late 19th century, and in which the natural world was depicted in a compassionate rather than realistic light. Works such as Ernest Thompson Seton's ''Wild Animals I Have Known'' (1898) and William J. Long's ''School of the Woods'' (1902) popularized this ...
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