Environmentalists & Naturalists
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-20 | Author:Johanna Silver [Silver, Johanna]

Ruth saved bed 6, with its permanent shade structure, for small, tender succulents that prefer filtered light to full sun. Ruth’s favorite way to plant these succulents was to create ...
( Category: West May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Sarah Gerard

We wear plastic gloves and greet each person. Again I serve grits. Some people ask for the grits on top of their eggs. Some crack jokes. Some prefer not to ...
( Category: Authors May 1,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kyo Maclear

• • • In May, one night, while thinking about falling I came across a funny and melancholy dance by Pina Bausch on YouTube. Early into the performance (1980—A Piece ...
( Category: Plants & Animals January 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-20 | Author:Elizabeth Rynecki

TWELVE Toronto, Canada Back in spring 2008, I received a voice mail message from a man with a Polish accent and a Canadian telephone number. His name was Moshe Wertheim, ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers November 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:Robert Jensen

Fire To me, the essence of my home state of North Dakota is hard red spring wheat. Although I didn’t grow up on a farm, during my high school years ...
( Category: Radicalism November 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-24 | Author:Carolyn Merchant

1. The Audubon Magazine, Issue 1 cover. Published February 1887 by Forest and Stream Publishing Company, New York. George Bird Grinnell, Editor. 2. John James Audubon (1785–1851). Portrait by John ...
( Category: Birds August 25,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Packham

5 My Piece of Sky The Egg April 1973 THE JACKDAWS BLEW off the field like bonfire ash, freckling grey into the bone-white sky, breaking down to the roofs, catching ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists August 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-13 | Author:Yosemite Conservancy

Great Smoky Mountains National Park A Good Old-Fashioned Mountain Rescue Jane Marie Allen Farmer In the 1980s, cell phones were nonexistent, which meant rescue could be a long way off. ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists July 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-06 | Author:Robert Wyss

14. Diablo and Galápagos Taking risks has been my trouble in the environmental movement. Because I am a climber, I am aware that there’s a certain amount of danger in ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-27 | Author:Gopnik, Adam [Gopnik, Adam]

These are not just what professors would call rhetorical strategies, things that work. They are a circuit of feelings and implicit themes, of voice, that makes The Origin not just ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Dan Eatherley

Raymond Ditmars extracts venom from a cottonmouth pitviper (Agkistrodon piscivorus), c. 1935. “It’s part of my job,” he once said. (© Wildlife Conservation Society) ONE Sunday afternoon in July 1893 ...
( Category: Reptiles & Amphibians May 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:Steven Rinella

I WAS STANDING UP TO MY WAIST in the swampy muck of Lake Dubonnet, about ten miles outside of Traverse City, Michigan. The lake is, by anyone’s definition, a swamp. ...
( Category: Game April 22,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Gerald Durrell

Chapter 12 The Woodcock Winter As the summer drew to a close I found myself, to my delight, once more without a tutor. Mother had discovered that, as she so ...
( Category: Wildlife April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-18 | Author:Berra, Tim M.

DARWIN’S DEATH Father and son were still doing botanical experiments two days before Charles’s death. Frank, Henrietta, Elizabeth, and Emma were with Charles when he died on 19 April 1882. ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists April 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Darrin Lunde

Theodore Roosevelt (left) on the cowcatcher of a train used by the Smithsonian African Expedition in Kenya. R. J. Cuninghame (center) was Roosevelt’s professional hunting guide, and Dr. Edgar Mearns ...
( Category: Wildlife April 14,2016 )