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• A Fable of Modern Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Dore Ashton (HTML at UC Press)
• Imagining Landscapes: A Portfolio of Exhibits (online edition; originally published 1984), by David Wade Chambers (illustrated HTML at indigenousknowledge.org)
• Landscape Character Types of the National Forests in Arizona and New Mexico: The Visual Management System (1989), by United States Forest Service Southwestern Region (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Decay of Lying, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)
• The Science of Beauty, As Developed in Nature and Applied in Art (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1861), by D. R. Hay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kunstformen der Natur (2 volumes, in German; Leipzig and Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, 1904), by Ernst Haeckel
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  • selected colored plates from main volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • supplement volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The relation of art to nature (William E. Rudge, 1922), by John W. Beatty and William Edwin Rudge (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The science of beauty, as developed in nature and applied in art. (W. Blackwood and sons, 1856), by D. R. Hay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The relation of art to nature. ([Boston?, 1892), by Charles H. Ames (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das naturgefühl im wandel der zeiten ... mit 30 tafeln. (Quelle & Meyer, 1926), by Alfred Biese (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La philosophie de la nature dans l'art d'Extrême-Orient, illustré d'après les originaux des maîtres du paysage des VIIIe au XVIIe siècles de quatre gravures sur bois de K. Egawa et S. Izumi, tirées en couleurs (Librairie Renouard--H. Laurens, 1910), by Raphael Petrucci (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Art, life, and nature in Japan (Boston, 1933), by Masaharu Anesaki (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Harmonie im Weltall, in der Natur und Kunst. (Orion-Verlag, 1917), by Emerich Zederbauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Naturwiedergabe in der älteren griechischen Kunst (Loescher & Co., 1900), by Em. Loewy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Love of nature among the Greeks and Romans. (Cooper Square Publishers, 1963), by H. Rushton Fairclough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Love of nature among the Greeks and Romans (Longmans, Green and co., 1930), by H. Rushton Fairclough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die entwicklung des naturgefühls bei den Griechen und Römern. (Lipsius & Tischer, 1882), by Alfred Biese (page images at HathiTrust)
• The picturesque : studies in a point of view (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927), by Christopher Hussey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Italian landscape in eighteenth century England; a study chiefly of the influence of Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa on English taste, 1700-1800. (Oxford University Press, 1925), by Elizabeth Wheeler Manwaring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nature and ornament ... (B. T. Batsford;, 1909), by Lewis F. Day (page images at HathiTrust)
• The philosophy of nature; or, The influence of scenery on the mind and heart. (J. Murray, 1813., 1813), by Charles Bucke (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the beauties, harmonies, and sublimities of nature (Harper and brothers, 1841), by Charles Bucke and William P. Page (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le sentiment de la nature en France dans la première moitié du dix-septième siècle (Imprimerie A. Lesot, 1926), by Grace Morley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sir Uvedale Price On the picturesque: with an essay on the origin of taste, and much original matter (Caldwell, Lloyd, and co. [etc., etc.], 1842), by Uvedale Price and Thomas Dick Lauder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le sentiment de la nature avant le christianisme. (Didier, 1866), by Victor de Laprade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art studies from nature. (Virtue & co., 1872), by F. Edward Hulme, Robert Hunt, Samuel Joseph Mackie, and James Glaisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The painter looks at nature (University of Washington book store, 1928), by Walter F. Isaacs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jahresbericht über die Fürsten- und Landesschule Meissen (gedruckt bei C.E. Klinkicht & Sohn, 1875), by Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über Naturschilderung (R. Oldenbourg, 1906), by Friedrich Ratzel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Entwickelung des Naturgefühls im Mittelalter und in der Neuzeit ... (Veit & Comp., 1892), by Alfred Biese (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le sentiment de la nature ... (Didier et ce, 1866), by Victor de Laprade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire du sentiment de la nature. (Didier, 1882), by Victor de Laprade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le sentiment de la nature et son expression artistique (Alcan, 1914), by Albert Dauzat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ueber den landschaftlichen Natursinn der Griechen und Romer. Vorstudien zu einer Archäologie der Landschaftsmalerei. (T. Ackermann, 1871), by Karl Woermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ästhetik der Tierwelt. (G. Fischer, 1908), by Karl August Möbius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die naturpersonifikationen in der griechischen kunst. (W.F. Kaestner, 1913), by Friedrich Matz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Natur und Kunst. Studien zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Kunst (Allgemeiner Verein für Deutsche Litteratur, 1891), by Ernst Krause (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über Naturschilderung (R. Oldenbourg, 1923), by Friedrich Ratzel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Naturanschauung der Renaissance in Italien. (Verlag des kunstgeschichtlichen Seminars, 1924), by Hans Hesse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Evangelium der Schönheit in der englischen Literatur und Kunst des XIX. Jahrhunderts; 30 Vorträge über die Vorbereitung und Entwickelung der aesthetischen Kultur in England (F. W. Ruhfus, 1904), by Ernst Sieper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The painter looks at nature (University of Washington Book Store, 1927), by Walter F. Isaacs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le beau dans la nature. (E. Vitte, 1913), by P. Gaborit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kulturarbeiten (Callwey [im] Kunstwart-Verlag, 1906), by Paul Schultze-Naumburg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• It seems possible to quantify scenic beauty in photographs (U.S. Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, 1970), by Elwood L. Shafer and James Mietz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Measuring landscape esthetics : the scenic beauty estimation method (Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1976), by Terry C. Daniel and Ron S. Boster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modeling forest scenic beauty : concepts and application to ponderosa pine (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1984), by Thomas C. Brown, Terry C. Daniel, and Colo.) Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (Fort Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the beauties, harmonies, and sublimities of nature (Harper, 1846), by Charles Bucke and William P. Page (page images at HathiTrust)
• The scenery-shower, with word-paintings of the beautiful, the picturesque, and the grand in nature ... (W.D. Ticknor & co., 1844), by Warren Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richard Wagner und Arnold Böcklin, oder über das Wesen von Landschaft und Musik. (J. Zeitler, 1904), by Gottfried Niemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le sentiment de la nature chez les modernes (Didier et Cie, Libraires-Éditeurs, 1870), by Victor de Laprade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nature in ornament (B. T. Batsford, 1894), by Lewis F. Day (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur modernen naturbetrachtung; vier abhandlungen (Fischer, 1882), by Hermann Frerichs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aesthetik der Natur : für Künstler, Naturkundige, Lehrer, Gärtner, Land-und Forstwirthe, Reisende, Geistliche, sowie für Freunde der Natur überhaupt (Ferdinand Enke, 1890), by Ernst Hallier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brambles and bay leaves : essays on things homely and beautiful (Groombridge and Sons, 1872), by Shirley Hibberd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drawing from nature: a series of progressive instructions in sketching, from elementary studies to finished views, with examples from Switzerland and the Pyrenees; to which are appended lectures on art delivered at Rugby School. Illustrated by eighteen coloured and lithographic plates, and more than one hundred woodcuts. (Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1865), by George Barnard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kunst und moral; briefwechsel zwischen William Shakespeare und Madame Gâches-Sarraute ... (Schmidt, 1903), by Herbert Barbaros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On the beauties, harmonies, and sublimities of nature : with notes, commentaries, and illustrations : and occasional remarks on the laws, customs, habits, and manners, of various nations (T. Tegg, 1837), by Charles Bucke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natur und kunst, fortsetzung von Kunst und moral; briefwechsel zwischen William Shakespeare und Madame Gâches-Sarraute, docteur en médecine à Paris, nach authentischen quellen (Schmidt, 1904), by Herbert Barbaros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On the beauties, harmonies, and sublimities of nature; with notes, commentaries, and illustrations ... (Harper and Brothers, 1842), by Charles Bucke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The true and the beautiful in nature, art, morals and religion (John Wiley & Son, 1865), by John Ruskin and Louisa C. Tuthill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Esthʹetique de la nature (R. Guillon, 1927), by Maurice Griveau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van het natuurgevoel in de middeleeuwsche nederlanden (A. Oosthoek, 1910), by Alette Elisabeth Cornelia van der Looy van der Leeuw (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kulturarbeiten (G.D.W. Callwey, 1904), by Paul Schultze-Naumburg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life of Wilson (London : Published for the benefit of the Artist's Benevolent Fund by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster-Row, 1824., 1824), by T. Wright, William Bond, Anton Raphael Mengs, Spottiswoode & Co, and Hurst Longman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art, nature, education; aurea apprehensio (Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, 1943), by Gretchen Osgood Warren and Fogg Art Museum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Side-lights of nature in quill and crayon (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner ;, 1912), by Tickner Edwardes and George Charles Haité (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die ornamentale Schönheit der Landschaft und der Natur, als Beitrag zu einer allgemeinen Ästhetik der Landschaft und der Natur (R. Piper, 1912), by Hugo Marcus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On the beauties, harmonies, and sublimities of nature, with occasional remarks on the laws, customs, manners, and opinions of various nations. (G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823), by Charles Bucke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die empfindung der naturschönheit bei den alten. (S. Hirzel, 1865), by Heinrich Motz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Naturwiedergabe in der älteren griechischen Kunst (Von Loescher, 1900), by Em. Loewy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Las bellezas de la naturaleza, o, Descripción de los árboles, plantas, cataratas, fuentes, volcanes, montes, minas, etc., los mas considerables y estraordinarios del globo (Impr. de D.E. Aguado, 1832), by A. Antoine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ethica naturalis ([Johann Christoph Weigel], 1700), by Johann Christoph Weigel, Caspar Luiken, and Jan Luiken (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des hommes devant la nature et la vie : Rodin, Helleu, Le Sidaner, Steinlen, E. Claus, P. Renouard, Ch. Cottet, J. W. Alexander, J. F. Raffaelli, F. Thaulow, G. La Touche, A. Baertsoen, Aman-Jean, A. Lepère (Société d'éditions littéraires et artistiques, 1902), by Gabriel Mourey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Théorie du paysage (Chez Lenormant, 1818), by J. B. Deperthes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Haunts of ancient peace. (Adam and Charles Black, 1908), by Alfred Austin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Aesthetik der Gartenkunst : ein Beitrag zur Einführung derselben in das Kunstsystem (Alexander Danz, 1890), by K. E. Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Naturpersonifikationen in der griechischen Kunst von der Hohen Philosphischen Fakultät der Universität Göttingen am 16. Juni 1913 gekrönte Preisschrift (Druck der Dieterichs̕chen Univ.-Buchdruckerei, w fr. Kaestner, 1913), by Friedrich Matz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nature : addresses, and lectures (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drawing from nature : a series of progressive instructions in sketching, to which are appended lectures on art delivered at Rugby School ; illustrated by eighteen coloured plates, and numerous woodcuts (George Routledge & sons, 1877), by George Barnard, England) Leighton Bros. (London, Sons R. Clay, George Routledge and Sons, and Rugby School (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hermosura de la naturaleza y sentimiento estético de ella (Est. tip. "Sucesores de Rivadeneyra", 1908), by Federico González Suárez (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nature and ornament (B.T. Batsford;, 1908), by Lewis Foreman Day (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über das Verhältnis der bildenden Künste zu der Natur (G. Reimer, 1843), by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Zeitseele in der modernen Litteratur und Kunst. Zwei kapitel: die weib- und die naturauffassung. (C.A. Kaemmerer, 1898), by Siegmar Schultze-Galléra (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forest pictures in the Adirondacks (J. G. Gregory, 1865), by Alfred Billings Street and John Augustus Hows (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nature and ornament ... (B. T. Batsford;, 1910), by Lewis F. Day (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Über naturgefühl in Deutschland im 10. und 11. jahrhundert (B.G. Teubner, 1910), by Gertrud Stockmayer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Programme d'une science idéaliste : ou, Des harmonies qui font la beauté dans la nature et l'oeuvre d'art (Chez tous les libraires, 1896), by Maurice Griveau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of living (College Station, Texas : Extension Service, 1938., 1938), by Maggie W. Barry, United States Department of Agriculture, and Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Extension Service (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Natur- und Kunstschaffen : ein Schöpfungskunde (H. Costenoble, 1910), by Adolf Harpf (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nature and the arts : 24 comparisons (Kingsport Press, 1953), by M. Peter Piening (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zur geschichte des naturgefühls bei den Deutschen. (Dresden, 1885), by Theodor Urbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aesthetic dimensions of the landscape (Dept. of Landscape Architecture, University of California, 1969), by R. Burton Litton and Kenneth H. Craik (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reflections; the story of water pictures (Greenberg, 1936), by Marion Thayer. MacMillan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Assessing amenity resource values (U.S. Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1979), by Terry C. Daniel, B. L. Driver, Ervin H. Zube, and United States Forest Service (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rules relating to the scenery and antiquities incident to travelers (John Nichols and Son, 1826), by Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, Edward Dayes, and Joseph Clarendon Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Campo de nardos. (Lit. y tip. Vargas, 1926), by Arístides Rojas and José E. Machado (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nature and ornament : nature the raw material of design, ornament its finished product (B.T. Batsford ;, 1910), by Lewis F. Day (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'esthétique dans les sciences de la nature ([Société zoologique de France], 1900), by Charles Janet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Elementar-Beiträge zu Bestinemung der Naturgesetze der Gestaltung und des Widerstandes, und Anwendung dieser Beiträge auf Natur und Kunstgestaltung ([s.n.], 1861), by Friedrich Gottlob Röber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art-Studies from Nature, as Applied to Design: For the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers, by F. Edward Hulme, James Glaisher, Robert Hunt, and Samuel Joseph Mackie (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Relation of Art to Nature, by John W. Beatty (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Heart of Nature; or, The Quest for Natural Beauty, by Francis Edward Younghusband (Gutenberg ebook)

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