This study intends to do an ecocritical reading of several of Hawthorne’s relatively less-known works and focus on how nature frames or guides the story, acting as a powerful element in his stories. Hawthorne’s less-studied short story Sights from A Steeple is the starting point of this study, exploring how it mainly describes a scenery where natural forces act together as an overwhelming power. The elements of water, including the climatic clouds and rain, affect the story's direction, with both the overarching plot and the sub-plots predestined by the forces of nature. Similarly, this notion is hinted at by Hawthorne’s other two short stories analyzed in this essay, The Gentle Boy and The May-pole of Merry Mount, where the water elements of nature also set the events and the noble destinies of the main characters. However, a subverted direction is given in the final short story to be investigated, Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment, where the seemingly magical water fuels humans’ greed down to the path of destruction. By discovering how the element of water is presented in Nathanial Hawthorne’s short stories as a natural, powerful climatic force, this study contributes to revealing climate awareness in the canons of English literature.