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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
azw3 |eng | 2016-08-21 | Author:J. Drew Lanham [Lanham, J. Drew]

Cows A cow is as good as a man. Masai proverb WHEN DADDY USED TO PLAY THE SONS OF THE PIONEERS SINGING “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” and “Riders in the Sky,” the ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists March 6,2020 )
Forty Years a Forester by Elers Koch & Char Miller
epub |eng | | Author:Elers Koch & Char Miller

6 The Moose Creek Story Old Bob Monroe threw a couple of chunks on the campfire, which had been allowed to burn down to a bed of coals, as all ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry March 4,2020 )
What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other by Wen Stephenson
epub |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:Wen Stephenson [Stephenson, Wen]

By the time that two-hundred-pound anchor was hauled up from the channel bottom by a salvage crane, as the sun went down behind the plant, Ken and Jay had managed ...
( Category: Environmental Science March 4,2020 )
A THOUSAND-MILE WALK TO THE GULF (Illustrated Edition) by John Muir
epub |eng | 2017-07-04 | Author:John Muir [Muir, John]

New leaves arise constantly from the center of the grand bud, while old ones break away from the outside. The splendid crowns are thus kept about the same size, perhaps ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 3,2020 )
Learning to Play With a Lion's Testicles by Melissa Haynes
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Melissa Haynes

15 Tree Planting “Have you ever been tree planting before?” the Drill Sergeant asks. “No but I’m willing to give it a shot.” Sounds like a relatively clean job. It ...
( Category: Volunteer Work March 2,2020 )
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind by Diana Preston
epub |eng | 2009-02-28 | Author:Diana Preston

XIV "OUR LITTLE ARK" The next morning, the owner of the house returned with some friends. He expected to find only Dampier, swinging alone in his hammock, and was astonished ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists March 1,2020 )
Strange Blooms by Jennifer Potter
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jennifer Potter [Potter, Jennifer]

While including Gerard’s text in his revised edition of the Herball, Thomas Johnson nonetheless introduced a note of realism by declaring that barnacle geese hatched from eggs like any other ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists March 1,2020 )
The Audubon Reader by John James Audubon
epub |eng | 2020-12-31 | Author:John James Audubon [Audubon, John James]

“The amount for the present year will be much greater than any of the above. The number of flatboats and keels is beyond calculation. The number of steamboats above the ...
( Category: Bird Field Guides March 1,2020 )
Red Rag to a Bull by Jamie Blackett
epub |eng | | Author:Jamie Blackett

All across the county, the farming neighbours are hedge-cutting. This makes me cross, as we are barely out of September and the fruit that is so vital for the birds ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists February 29,2020 )
South African Eden by James Stevenson-Hamilton
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-30 | Author:James Stevenson-Hamilton

The author (right) with Harry Wolhuter (1902-1946) at the tree where he escaped from a lion in 1903 The railway trolley and Skukuza Rest-camp by 1940 The railway halt in ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists February 29,2020 )
The Correspondence, 1834-1848 by Thoreau Henry David; Hudspeth Robert N.;
epub |eng | 2013-02-27 | Author:Thoreau, Henry David; Hudspeth, Robert N.;

To Isaac Thomas Hecker August 14, 1844 Concord Aug. 14th 44 Friend Hecker, I am glad to hear your voice from that populous city, and the more so for the ...
( Category: Letters February 28,2020 )
A Brief Guide to Charles Darwin by Cyril Aydon
epub |eng | | Author:Cyril Aydon

11 FORCED INTO THE OPEN Three weeks after Annie’s death, Emma gave birth to a son, who was christened Horace. She had hoped that caring for a new-born child might ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists February 28,2020 )
The Great Naturalists by Robert Huxley
epub |eng | 2019-02-27 | Author:Robert Huxley

AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE William Bartram was also an important scientific figure in the development of the new American Republic. He was well aware of the need for an independent scientific community ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists February 28,2020 )
To Speak for the Trees by Diana Beresford-Kroeger
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:Diana Beresford-Kroeger

TWELVE Splitting Wood I left my job at the University of Ottawa in 1982. By that point, eight or nine years into our residency, the farm was starting to take ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists February 27,2020 )
Letters to the Earth by Emma Thompson
epub |eng | 2019-09-21 | Author:Emma Thompson

Dr Martin Shaw The Hospital We are building a hospital, a place of refuge, a sanctum We have been skilling ourselves for all that this time demands of us We ...
( Category: Conservation February 20,2020 )

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