Nature writing celebrates the dynamic depths of nature whereas landscape writing aestheticizes the static surfaces of nature. Landscape writing is the creative, written inscription of the visual appreciation for the surfaces of nature in the aesthetic modes of the sublime, the picturesque, and the beautiful. Nature writing is often confused or equated with natural history. This chapter differentiates between nature writing as trace and natural history as inscription drawing on the work of Walter Benjamin (1892–1940). Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault (1926–1984), natural history, the first modern discourse of nature, produced nature as an object of scientific investigation and set up the subject position of the natural historian who investigated nature as object scientifically through observation. The discourse of nature produced a subject-object relationship with nature, both the first nature (and culture) of first peoples and the natural world. The discourse of nature is an institutionalized way of seeing and stating the natural world and the first nature of first peoples. Nature writing, by contrast, is not institutionalized, though it has been commodified. It is not a discourse, a way of seeing and saying, but a way of sensing and writing the natural world.