Nature Writing & Essays
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Margaret Stanger

I tried it. I tried it several times. When out there by herself, she paid no attention to a choice ant, she did not go into the geranium bed—she just ...
( Category: Birds September 22,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Rachel Carson & Linda Lear

18 [1953] The Edge of the Sea THIS PAPER, given the same title as her forthcoming book, was presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Symposium, “The ...
( Category: Wildlife September 15,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Annie Dillard

And now outside the window, deep on the horizon, a new thing appears, as if we needed a new thing. It is a new land blue beyond islands, hitherto hidden ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays June 5,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:David Quammen [Quammen, David]

IV NEAR SIGHT BEAST IN THE MIRROR Science Uncovers Another Chimpanzee In 1699, more than a century before the birth of Charles Darwin, a London physician named Edward Tyson dissected ...
( Category: Animals May 8,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-09-01 | Author:Peter Allison

After a month at Jedibe, news came through that I had to get into Maun immediately to sit a guide’s licence exam, then return to Mombo. After a trip to ...
( Category: General May 7,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Matthiessen & Pico Iyer [Matthiessen, Peter]

OCTOBER 28 A light snow fell throughout the evening, but this morning it is clear. The Ring-mos demanded a raise in pay before they would try again, and not receiving ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays May 7,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:William Powers

SIMPLIFY 14. THE IDLE MAJORITY ON JANUARY 21, 1949, some two billion people woke up and got out of bed, still unaware of the terrible change that had taken place ...
( Category: Environmental May 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-04-12 | Author:Ellen Meloy [Meloy, Ellen]

ONLY A FEW GENERATIONS AGO, social mores, not women, kept women inside. The clothes didn't help much either—girdles, psychotic footwear, personal responsibility for the breakdown of western civilization if you ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays April 13,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Matthiessen

6 Beyond Black Drunken River WITH ITS MUD Streets, thatch roofs, and raffish waterfront, and its barefoot Shipibos with their nose ornaments and bright clothing, the Peruvian river town of ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays April 9,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-12 | Author:Craig Childs [Childs, Craig]

1st firefly at 7:45 many more by 7:49 dazzling by 7:54 Finally, in the dark, the gurgling sound of the creek became loud enough that the bottom of the canyon ...
( Category: Natural Resources March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-26 | Author:Colin Tudge

Finally, the ten species of Nyssa are mostly ornamental but include the tupelo, N. aquatica and N. sylvatica, trees big enough to provide North Americans with railway sleepers. (Once Nyssa ...
( Category: Plants & Animals March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Rachel Carson [Carson, Rachel]

With the tide, predators come from offshore. A blue crab dashes out of the surf to seize a fat mole crab that is in the act of spreading its antennae ...
( Category: Marine Biology March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Henry David Thoreau

The cars never pause to look at it; yet I fancy that the engineers and firemen and brakemen, and those passengers who have a season ticket and see it often, ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-11 | Author:Craig Childs [CHILDS, CRAIG]

PRONGHORN ANTELOPE The pay for the work was seven hundred dollars. It didn’t include film or gas or food. Because I was sixteen years old, it was much more money ...
( Category: Wildlife March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Craig Childs [CHILDS, CRAIG]

Colin and I spent most of the day at this cliff dwelling, hardly speaking to each other, just moving from ruin to ruin—some hardly ruins at all. I eventually made ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 26,2014 )