Abstract
The fictional works of C. S. Lewis have long been admired for their depictions of the natural world. However, the bucolic landscapes and interspecies communication in The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy hold deeper significance to Lewis than as imaginative backdrops to the narratives he creates.
I will be focusing on five areas – the symbolic geography of the planets and universe within The Space Trilogy, the ecology and relations between species, the destruction of nature and the natural world, the physical and figurative portals Lewis creates in nature, and the interpretation of the natural world as an ideal paradise.