Beginning with the Bible, the Koran, the I Ching, ancient Egyptian texts, and classical Arab poetry about nature, to Shakespeare, the Romantic poets, Gerard Manley Hopkins, French symbolists and nature poets, American transcendentalists and indigenous people, Canadian eco-writers and poets, and modern and contemporary global poetry and essays we explore how humans have described nature over the years in different parts of the world. This course does NOT focus on narrative structure and long novels but rather the aesthetics of language, the descriptions of nature, and how these readings mesh with scientific writing on the environment, and what ecoliterature teaches us about our planet now, before, and hopefully in the future.