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What readers are saying: ★★★★★ "Balarezo's eagerness to embrace and learn from discomfort will inspire readers to question the conveniences they curate in their own lives."★★★★★ "The author's ability to remain candid and dissect his own thoughts and actions is something that many strive...

Welcome to "Tempest"! This book reflects the earthly experiences, visions and concerns of eight contemporary poets-six from central Ohio, one from Kentucky and one from Punta Arenas, Chile! Each writes passionately about caring deeply for our planetary home in these crucial times-times of great...

Moments in Nature is a delightful compilation of short stories, poems and articles from members of The Society of Women Writers WA. These creative works reveal women writers' interactions with the environment; in some cases, their angst of the world's environmental issues; in others,...

Frank is finally making a trip to British Columbia with his son, John to visit his grandson, Max. Frank had thought his days of adventure were long over, yet one sunny morning, he finds himself on one of the biggest adventures of his life.Another...

A study of basic survival skills with God's Word as your guide. This book is a great supplemental guide with a basic survival skills overview. Included in each section are devotional lessons for journaling and Bible Study. Written by Karl Bridgers.Author: Karl BridgersISBN-10: 1088046207ISBN-13:...

A new collection of essays on the living intelligence within nature from various spiritual and scientific perspectives, by James Lovelock, Dorothy MacLean, Joan Halifax, Thomas Berry, John Seed, Serge King, author of Earth Energies, and others.Author: Shirley NicholsonISBN-10: 0835606856ISBN-13: 9780835606851Publisher: Quest Books (IL)Language: EnglishPublished:...

Everglades Sunrise IIYou and your family can connect to nature with poems and photos that turn ospreys, owls, dragonflies and gators into rock stars. Even the baby egrets and wood storks think they are hot stuff! Share the joy of four grandmothers who created...

Below the Ocean: Keeping Our Sea Friends Safe is a fictional children's book, richly illustrated by international award-winning artist Lily Liu. The book is about a young seal, Sophia the Seal, who becomes entangled in the string of a helium balloon. She learns from...

Fun illustrations and informative text show readers how the weather can change in fall. Through critical thinking and comprehension questions, readers will learn to pay attention to the weather and understand seasonal changes.Author: Martha E. H. RustadISBN-10: 154152005XISBN-13: 9781541520059Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)Language: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2018Pages:...

This book is for you if, like thousands of others, you have realized that sustainability's moment has finally come. Shifting our world from its current unsustainable path will require a revolution of hearts, minds, and bodies. It will take people from every corner of...

A reflective, luminous collection of essays of a life as an outdoor sportsman. Yonder is a gathering of memories that Ron Ellis and his friends enjoyed while outdoors: hunting, fly-fishing, hiking and camping. These new and selected stories tell of cherished friends and characters,...

A book of meditations and poems accumulated over many decades which reveal the author's love of the natural world and the people who inhabit it. There are some profound insights coming from her personal experiences. God is never far away. These few pages containing...

Mindfulness in Nature helps readers separate themselves from their busy lives, and allows them to engage in a deeper, more fulfilling relationship with the natural world around them through meditative practice. Now more than ever, with the constant distractions that abound in modern life--from...

"Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press"This collection, the first consolidated effort to study Hemingway's relationship to the natural world, is essential for everyone interested not only in a key figure of twentieth century American literature, but also...

Have you ever wondered about those adorable sea turtles that you are lucky enough to see go out to the sea? Grandma Chris knows firsthand because she is a member of the Turtle Team called Turtle Trackers, who volunteer to protect these sea turtles....

This book aims to view and to understand Alexander von Humboldt from different perspectives and in varying disciplinary contexts. His contributions addressed numerous topics in the earth but also life sciences-spanning from geo-botany, climatology, paleontology, oceanography, mineralogy, resources, and hydrogeology to links between the...

A collection of articles written for the Tempus Magazine as an editor for the Lifestyle column. This features a number of articles - all with different topics. Read more to find out.Author: Yaxuan Elsa YangISBN-10: 1957575743ISBN-13: 9781957575742Publisher: Goldtouch Press, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/11/2022Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight:...

The essays in The In-Between State forward a compassionate analysis of bodies: queer bodies, bodies of water, bodies that are hated, and bodies that deserve love. Martha Lundin, in fifteen moving essays, attempts to understand the ways in which people try to shape landscapes-how...

The Seven Directions of the Medicine Wheel will bring balance, harmony, and beauty into your life by working with the Creator and applying simple and practical lessons found in nature. Based on Native American teachings, the book focuses on one's spiritual, emotional, physical, and...

Jaclyn had been living her dream as a wilderness instructor while guiding backpacking expeditions in the high mountains of Wyoming, when suddenly she experienced a traumatic, emotional, and frightening illness that brought her to her knees. Who knew the bite from a tiny tick...

This book is the cruising guide for boaters in the Apostle Islands. In addition to a number of waypoints for significant features within the islands, it contains ten recommended sailing routes, nautical cautions, recommended anchorages and historical information. It also contains labeled color photos...

Backcountry Excursions is a collection of six short hiking narratives set in the wildlands of the Northeast, from New York's Adirondacks and Vermont's Green Mountains, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire and the Maine Woods. These first-person accounts bring to life the wonder...

Come forth into the light of things, Let nature be your teacher. William WadsworthWhen you look into the eyes of an animal, do you see its inner beauty? Do you sense the life-force within a tree? Do you hear sweetness in birdsong? Do you...

Lakes, trees, and birds are all part of nature. Early readers can explore ways to care for nature in this easily accessible text. Pairs with the fiction book, Nature Walk.Author: Katie PetersISBN-10: 1728463084ISBN-13: 9781728463087Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)Language: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2022Pages: 16Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.30h x...

Lakes, trees, and birds are all part of nature. Early readers can explore ways to care for nature in this easily accessible text. Pairs with the fiction book, Nature Walk.Author: Katie PetersISBN-10: 1728457645ISBN-13: 9781728457642Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)Language: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2022Pages: 16Format: Library BindingWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.70h...

Charles Robert Darwin, 12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors and, in a...

Charles Robert Darwin, 12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors and, in a...

GOD IS! why evolution isn't demonstrates how the nature/character of GOD is the death knell to the modern mythology of evolution, as it is to all human mythologies. There is much confusion among Christians and the general public regarding creation and evolution and what...

Walden is a timeless record of one man's inner journey in the great outdoors. In 1845, Henry David Thoreau set out on a personal experiment that was as simple as it was profound. For two years, two months, and two days he would live...

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience is one of Thoreau's most famous essays. This edition includes a special section for the reader to take notes at the end of the book.Author: Henry David ThoreauISBN-10: 1604500417ISBN-13: 9781604500417Publisher: ARC ManorLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2007Pages: 46Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize: 8.00h...

Excursions contains the complete texts of nine of Thoreau's most popular essays. These include Natural History of Massachusetts, his first essay to appear in The Dial (a quarterly periodical edited by Margaret Fuller), as well as other well known early works like A Winter...

The biography of Miss Ima and her life in Texas.Author: Leslie WilloughbyISBN-10: 1588988112ISBN-13: 9781588988119Publisher: Booksurge PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/17/2003Pages: 226Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.48d

"I am convinced that, for the moment, the most common point of view is: 'How little can we spend on the bees and still get them to make honey?' If some beekeeper says, 'Feed them sugar water, ' their point of view must be:...

You never know where you'll spot a Garden Dragon -it could be on your travels, on a nature walk, or even in your own backyard! This whimsical deck presents 46 adorable dragons, each with a mystical message to share. You'll meet sweet fruit dragons...

What are the secrets to dog breeding? It's a fascinating question. It's probably the reason why you need this book. It's important to know these secrets if you are to pursue dog breeding, and the secrets are what anyone in life must seek out...

This version is in 'Olelo Hawai'i (Hawaiian) He'e and 'Iole is an old Hawaiian mo'olelo (story) about the relationship of the Octopus and the Rat.Check us out at Halepili.com to play our He'e and 'Iole game. Mobile game app available for Google Play and...

First published in 1839, "The Voyage of the Beagle" is the book written by Charles Darwin that chronicles his experience of the famous survey expedition of the ship HMS Beagle. Part travel memoir, part scientific field journal, it covers such topics as biology, anthropology,...

"Our Vanishing Wild Life" from William Temple Hornaday. American zoologist, conservationist, taxidermist, and author (1854-1937).Author: The Perfect Library, William Temple HornadayISBN-10: 1511984139ISBN-13: 9781511984133Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2015Pages: 380Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d

Morels are prized edible mushrooms that fruit, sometimes prolifically, in many forest types throughout western North America. They are collected for personal consumption and commercially harvested as valuable special (nontimber) forest products. Large gaps remain, however, in our knowledge about their taxonomy, biology, ecology,...

This publication describes the bird communities of major mainland rivers of southeast Alaska and is based on a review of all known relevant studies as well as recent fieldwork. We synthesized information on the composition, structure, and habitat relationships of bird communities at 11...

The USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory and the Wood-Based Composites Center of Virginia Tech co-sponsered a conference, held November 5-6, 2003, in Madison, Wisconsin, on the fundamental of composite processing.Author: United States Department of AgricultureISBN-10: 1508427186ISBN-13: 9781508427186Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2015Pages:...

"October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall so the year near its setting."-Henry David Thoreau, Autumnal Tints (1862)Autumnal Tints (1862)...

"We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described."- Henry David Thoreau, Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881) Early Spring in Massachusetts: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (1881) is the compilation of the insightful observations of nature Thoreau made during...

April 22, 2020 marked the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day. National, state and local governments shouldn't wait another day without taking decisive action to reduce global warming which is resulting in our climate crisis. Individuals and corporations should take advantage of this unique window...

A special gift edition of the bestselling book for Advent that reveals the wisdom and wonder of animals in the natural world In twenty-five portraits depicting how wild animals of the northern hemisphere ingeniously adapt when darkness and cold descend, we see and hear...

The American Beaver in New York: A Century of Wildlife Conservation details the story of the American beaver in New York from the point of total extirpation to a return of prominence during the 20th century. The authors give a comprehensive explanation of the...

Eastern Massachusetts boasts plenty of beautiful, quiet, wooded parks and preserves, all perfect for nature walks, mountain biking, cross-country skiing and wildlife watching. Author Michael Tougias guides you along 47 new walks from Cape Cod to pastoral Sherborne to the rocky coast of Gloucester....

For the past several centuries, science has been offering us a powerful new way to understand nature, but the accompanying rise of materialistic philosophy threatens to drain the meaning and sacred quality of our experience of nature. The resulting tension represents a fractured and...

Often life's greatest treasures are found in the most unlikely places. A Matter of Grace is the true story of a tiny dog and her gigantic influence on those she met along the way. Mattie's story is filled with humorous and touching accounts of...

Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five...