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Gathering the Desert by Gary Paul Nabhan
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Gary Paul Nabhan

When I returned, it was by air again, the first day of August. I had decided to rephotograph the field vicinity, using the paper cross for scale, to help estimate ...
( Category: Desert March 5,2020 )
A River Lost by Blaine Harden
epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Blaine Harden

The character of this aberrant Eden was neatly packaged when a hell-raiser by the name of Norm Buske paddled a rubber boat along the Hanford Reach. Buske positioned himself just ...
( Category: Natural Resources March 4,2020 )
Armchair Book of Gardens by Jane Billinghurst
epub |eng | | Author:Jane Billinghurst

THOMASINA. Yes, Mama, if you would have it so. LADY CROOM. Is she correcting my taste or my translation? TOM STOPPARD (1937–) Arcadia Designed to Disturb . . . Scottish ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 3,2020 )
This Book Was a Tree by Marcie Chambers Cuff
epub |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Marcie Chambers Cuff

TRY THIS Ecological Calendar Our world is not static—it is transient and continually changing. Nature skillfully organizes and reinvents itself within this eternal metamorphosis. You can see this in repetitive ...
( Category: Conservation March 3,2020 )
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 )
The Sound of Mountain Water by Wallace Stegner
epub |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:Wallace Stegner [Stegner, Wallace]

8 Coda Wilderness Letter Los Altos, Calif. Dec. 3, 1960 David E. Pesonen Wildland Research Center Agricultural Experiment Station 243 Mulford Hall University of California Berkeley 4, Calif. Dear Mr. ...
( Category: Essays March 3,2020 )
What I Don't Know about Animals by Jenny Diski
epub |eng | 2011-09-29 | Author:Jenny Diski [Diski, Jenny]

If both received cucumber, this was called equity. In this situation, the monkeys exchanged all the time, happily eating the food. But if we gave one of them grapes while ...
( Category: Animals March 2,2020 )
Thoughtful Gardening by Robin Lane Fox
epub |eng | 2010-10-13 | Author:Robin Lane Fox [Fox, Robin Lane]

PART THREE SUMMER Half an hour later Nikolay Petrovich went into the garden to his favourite arbour. His thoughts were gloomy. For the first time he recognised how far he ...
( Category: Essays March 2,2020 )
The Great Clod by Gary Snyder
epub |eng | 2016-04-22 | Author:Gary Snyder

Walls Within Walls High population, deforestation, a cash economy, and tribal nomad horsemen bring a partial end to one of the peak urban cultures: Sung Dynasty China. CITY WALLS Dwelling ...
( Category: Essays March 1,2020 )
A Natural History of North American Trees by Donald Culross Peattie
epub |eng | 2013-04-24 | Author:Donald Culross Peattie [Peattie, Donald Culross]

And now, as the hungry and exhausted men toiled through the gigantic jackstraw timbers of Idaho’s primeval forests, the captains sighted, on September 20, “an Arbor-vitae” — one they noted ...
( Category: Urban & Land Use Planning March 1,2020 )
Rewild Yourself by Simon Barnes
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Barnes [Barnes Simon]

13 TIME TRAVEL ‘It’s called a Time-Turner,’ Hermione whispered, ‘and I got it from Professor McGonagall on our first day back. I’ve been using it all year to get to ...
( Category: Wildlife February 28,2020 )
The Frog with Self-Cleaning Feet by Michael Bright
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Michael Bright

The male great bowerbird Chlamydera nuchalis in northern Australia uses an optical illusion to impress a female. He builds an ‘avenue’ type of bower, about 1m (about 3ft) long, out ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication February 28,2020 )
Experiments on Reality by Tim Robinson
epub |eng | 2019-09-04 | Author:Tim Robinson

Two Cries, Two Cliffs14 Eurydice in Hades Last Wednesday, which is only a week ago, M and I strolled out from our flat in West Hampstead to a little second-hand ...
( Category: Essays February 27,2020 )
Conversations with Trees by Stephanie Kaza
epub |eng | 2019-04-22 | Author:Stephanie Kaza

CHAPTER 16 Lineage of Fear DUSK. A SPOOKY SILENCE SETTLES OVER THE FOREST. I am here alone, or at least I think I’m alone. The creeping darkness slips in through ...
( Category: Ecology February 26,2020 )
Wendell Berry: Essays 1993-2017 (LOA #317) by Wendell Berry;Jack Shoemaker;
epub |eng | 2019-02-20 | Author:Wendell Berry;Jack Shoemaker;

With usury has no man a good house made of stone, no paradise on his church wall With usury the stone cutter is kept from his stone the weaver is ...
( Category: Essays February 23,2020 )

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