SOURCE: Richardson, Kelly L. “‘A Happy, Rural Seat of Various Views’: The Ecological Spirit in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of Pointed Firs and the Dunnet Landing Stories.” In Such News of the Land: U. S. Women Nature Writers, edited by Thomas S. Edwards and Elizabeth A. DeWolfe, pp. 95-109. Hanover, N. H.: University Press of New England, 2001.

In the following essay, Richardson analyzes Sarah Orne Jewett's ecological focus, the connections she makes between people and nature, and her concern with spirituality in The Country of the Pointed Firs.

“I think,” said Kate, “that the more one lives out of doors the more personality there seems to be in what we call inanimate things. The strength of the hills and the voice of the waves are no longer only grand poetical sentences, but an expression of something real, and more and more one finds God himself in the...