How should literary journalists translate Nature’s narratives when so much of the natural world is under threat? What if the trademark techniques of the genre—such as immersive reporting, digressive narration, effective use of dialogue and the twin virtues of truth and accuracy—do not or cannot engage a reluctant audience? Should the rules of literary journalism be augmented when a writer’s main source, Nature, cannot be interviewed? This chapter will identify and examine selected works of nature writers and environmental journalists who pushed the boundaries of literary journalism’s canons with their, often unrecognized, use of the pathetic fallacy (the figurative attribution of human emotions and behaviors to non-human agents) and anthropomorphism (the literal attribution of human characteristics and behaviors to animals and other non-human agents). Examples of these devices will be drawn from the writings of well-known nature and environmental writers recognized as literary journalists—Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson and John McPhee—as well as from the works of lesser-known or forgotten authors who might yet be inducted into the literary journalism pantheon, including nineteenth-century French author and entomologist Jean-Henri Fabré.