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The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-05-16 | Author:Gary Snyder

To return to my own situation: the land my family and I live on in the Sierra Nevada of California is “barely good” from an economic standpoint. With soil amendments, ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays July 2,2020 )
In Praise of Paths by Torbjørn Ekelund
epub |eng | 2020-07-15 | Author:Torbjørn Ekelund

PART III TRACKS BEFORE THERE IS a path, there are tracks. A path is created only after multiple footprints and tracks have been trodden in the same place, because a ...
( Category: Running & Jogging July 1,2020 )
The Inner Coast by Donovan Hohn
epub |eng | 2020-04-13 | Author:Donovan Hohn

That winter and spring, whenever Edwards went to Michigan, television cameras tended to follow. One morning, a team sent by RT, the Russian news network, trailed him to an elementary ...
( Category: Essays June 28,2020 )
Writing Wild by Kathryn Aalto
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Kathryn Aalto

Lauret Savoy Trace NOUN. A way or path. A course of action. Footprint or track. Vestige of a former presence. An impression. Minute amount. A life mark. VERB. To make ...
( Category: Women Authors June 23,2020 )
Feasting Wild by Gina Rae La Cerva
epub |eng | 2020-05-28 | Author:Gina Rae La Cerva

A few nights later, Lucian, my driver from the conservation organization, takes me to a spontaneous after-work happy hour. Lucian is a rotund man with an equable face and a ...
( Category: Essays May 29,2020 )
Wilderness Ways by William Joseph Long
mobi |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:William Joseph Long

VI. CLOUD WINGS THE EAGLE. Old Whitehead "Here he is again! here's Old Whitehead, robbing the fish-hawk." I started up from the little commoosie beyond the fire, at Gillie's excited ...
( Category: Wildlife May 2,2020 )
Dark, Salt, Clear by Lamorna Ash
epub |eng | | Author:Lamorna Ash

It is only later that I realise Don’s gruffness, his slamming hand on the table, is not an attack, but an attempt to harden me into a shape so I ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks April 19,2020 )
The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin
epub |eng | 2019-03-22 | Author:Mary Austin

( Category: Deserts Ecosystems April 13,2020 )
Thoreau's Wildflowers by Henry D. Thoreau
epub |eng | 2016-04-16 | Author:Henry D. Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry D.]

bull thistle (spear thistle, Cirsium lanceolatum=C. vulgare) The farmer accustomed to look at his crops from a mercenary point of view is not aware how beautiful they are. This prospect ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 28,2020 )
Kingdom of Frost by Bjørn Vassnes
epub |eng | 2020-03-15 | Author:Bjørn Vassnes

A CLOSER LOOK The Cryosphere Today The factor that determines the size of the cryosphere is which areas experience temperatures below the freezing point of water over the course of ...
( Category: Geology March 28,2020 )
Imagination in Place by Wendell Berry
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-04-14 | Author:Wendell Berry [Berry, Wendell]

I hope I have adequately prepared you to imagine my relief. Now I must ask you to imagine something else. However many poets there may be who know from experience ...
( Category: Anthologies March 26,2020 )
The self-made tapestry: pattern formation in nature by Philip Ball
epub |eng | 2001-10-17 | Author:Philip Ball

As wavy cracks in the descending glass plates get faster, the oscillations become more pronounced, until finally they start to distort from pure 'sine waves' and develop kinks (Fig. 6.6c, ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 23,2020 )
Desert Notes and River Notes by Barry Lopez
epub |eng | 1990-08-01 | Author:Barry Lopez [Lopez, Barry]

1954 A storm came this year, against which all other storms were to be measured, on a Saturday in October, a balmy afternoon. Men in the woods cutting firewood for ...
( Category: Natural History March 23,2020 )
A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
epub |eng | 2014-06-17 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

As usual the gossips have not been silent respecting Cromwell's buried wealth, and it is said that some years ago a farmer's plough, not far from here, slid over a ...
( Category: Anthologies March 22,2020 )
The Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson
epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Sylvain Tesson [Tesson, Sylvain]

APRIL 14 The winter just won’t quit. Last night: 5° F. No sign of a thaw. Snowflakes fall from dawn to dusk, making a silky rustling. I spend the day ...
( Category: Natural History March 22,2020 )

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