Nature Writing & Essays
epub |eng | 2019-07-12 | Author:Margaret Renkl

Babel PHILADELPHIA, 1984 I thought I had escaped the beautiful, benighted South for good when I left Alabama for graduate school in Philadelphia in 1984, though now I can’t imagine ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement July 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:T.H. White [White, T.H.]

Thursday I lay in the long grass at Silston cross roads with Gos on the fist. The cars came past pretty regularly there. It was shady where we lay, with ...
( Category: Birdwatching July 1,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Wendell Berry [Berry, Wendell]

Another way to categorize and isolate homosexuals from the general citizenry and the prerogatives of citizenship is to define homosexuality as a disease having a cause that can be discovered ...
( Category: Conservation July 1,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ruth Binney

The Greeks regarded chamomile with respect, prescribing it for fevers and agues as well as menstrual and other female problems. English herbalists also swore by its healing effects. By the ...
( Category: Trivia June 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 1963-05-14 | Author:Eugene Odum [Odum, Eugene]

LIMITING FACTORS— LIEBIGS LAW EXTENDED species at the expense of others. Many natural communities in such region s are "fir e types^ Jn_ thnf th/> ir p^peri't v or verv ...
( Category: Ecology May 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-19 | Author:Thoreau, Henry David; Allen, Francis H.;

* * * 162 [A term evidently imported by Thoreau from Maine, where he learned it from the loggers and Indians. It is used to signify a little bay in ...
( Category: Birdwatching May 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-17 | Author:Janet Lembke [Lembke, Janet]

It’s not the FDA regulation alone that affects the selling, finding, and holding of turtles as pets. Each one of the fifty states can put the Turtle Police on patrol ...
( Category: Fauna April 29,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-04-22 | Author:Lia Purpura

THREE-LEGGED BRANCH First came the sudden, light-struck feel of entering a meadow, though I was deep in the woods in Maine. The pines were thick, the green was black, the ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism April 23,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-01-25 | Author:Maddy, Celestine [Maddy, Celestine]

diy How to (Safely) Marvel at a Solar Eclipse Many of us share a common childhood memory—standing outside with our schoolmates gazing up through specially crafted glasses to catch a ...
( Category: Do-It-Yourself April 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-12 | Author:Michael Quetting & Stacey O'Brien & Jane Billinghurst

I SIT ON THE GRASS WITH A CAN OF BEER AND NOTICE that I still have the same peaceful feeling inside me that I had at the airfield. Is this ...
( Category: Zoology April 1,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-29 | Author:Susi Gott Séguret

Old Time Religion “Gimme that old-time religion, Gimme that old-time religion, Gimme that old-time religion, It’s good enough for me.” When my parents first moved into Shelton Laurel, they were ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Martin Shaw

CHAPTER 5 CROSSROADS, TEMPLES, AND WILD INTELLIGENCE The dark eagles, sleep and death, Rustle all night around my head: The golden statue of man May be swallowed by the icy ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-19 | Author:Barry Lopez

* * * — THE ONGOING ACADEMIC and popular debates about human origins—about exactly where the line of human descent lies among hominoids in the human evolutionary family—captivated my imagination ...
( Category: Natural History March 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-24 | Author:Beth Powning

Of Contour and Hollow Fields are square, and marked by posts and fences. They are bits of the planet brought to heel, remnants of vanquished forests. Yet within their human ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays August 24,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-07-29 | Author:Bob Smith

( Category: Authors August 1,2017 )