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Finding Stillness in a Noisy World by Jana Richman
epub |eng | | Author:Jana Richman

My mother liked to visit me during the many years I lived in Tucson. My father did not visit because I had cats. He accused me of having cats for ...
( Category: Essays March 11,2019 )
Deep Creek by Pam Houston
epub |eng | 2018-11-28 | Author:Pam Houston

Ranch Almanac: Lambing My shearer, Tom Barr, says Icelandics are the toughest sheep he shears, the strongest and the most unruly, but since they’re the only sheep I’ve had, I ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists February 27,2019 )
Temple Stream by Bill Roorbach
epub |eng | 2015-08-27 | Author:Bill Roorbach

FLASH FORWARD TO THE SPRING OF 2000. ONE EARLY APRIL morning, sleepless with her pregnancy, Juliet woke me, said: “We have to leave Ohio.” “Yes,” I said. “Promise me,” she ...
( Category: Rivers August 25,2017 )
Let My People Go Surfing by Chouinard Yvon
epub |eng | 2007-07-19 | Author:Chouinard, Yvon [Chouinard, Yvon]

1. Find the product in one of our retail stores, and have it shipped from there. 2. Find the item in retail, wholesale, or closeout inventory. 3. Locate the item ...
( Category: Environmental Economics June 8,2017 )
The Unsettlers by Mark Sundeen
epub |eng | 2016-12-02 | Author:Mark Sundeen

Nine The story of Detroit is not complete without the story of the suburbs. Indeed, the origins of the back-to-the-land movement aren’t so different from those of the suburbs. With ...
( Category: United States May 26,2017 )
The Bold Dry Garden by Johanna Silver
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 )
Sunshine State by Sarah Gerard
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 )
Birds Art Life by Kyo Maclear
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 )
Chasing Portraits by Elizabeth Rynecki
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 )
Plain Radical by Robert Jensen
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 )
Spare the Birds! by Carolyn Merchant
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 )
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham
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 )
The Wonder of It All by Yosemite Conservancy
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 )
The Man Who Built the Sierra Club by Robert Wyss
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 )
Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life by Gopnik Adam
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 )

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