Nature category: 119170 books
by Will Millard
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
'A wonderfully fluent account of how the strange magic of water and the beings that inhabit it can enchant and intoxicate' Chris Yates
Growing up on the Cambridgeshire Fens, Will Millard never felt more at home than when he was out with his granddad on the riverbank, whiling away the day catching...
Ecological Intelligence
Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
A bestseller in Africa, Ecological Intelligence defines a new way of thinking about the unprecedented environmental pressures of our day. Ian McCallum offers a compelling argument: that we must think differently about ourselves and the earth if we are to take seriously the survival of wilderness areas,...
by G.-V. Legros
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS
PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER 1. THE INTUITION OF NATURE.
CHAPTER 2. THE PRIMARY TEACHER.
CHAPTER 3. CORSICA.
CHAPTER 4. AT AVIGNON.
CHAPTER 5. A GREAT TEACHER.
CHAPTER 6. THE HERMITAGE.
CHAPTER 7. THE INTERPRETATION...
The Perfume of Life: Book Three
The Perfume of Life, #3
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
The Perfume of Life comprises an unparalleled series of conversations in the matter of storytelling vapors of Nature, on distillation and extraction technologies, the science of drawing out or intercepting the chemical communications of vital beings, and including also classes presented to baristas...
Xylotheque
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Trees are guiding symbols for Yelizaveta P. Renfro in her life and in her work. Combining memoir and nature writing, this book comprises nine essays that represent different seasons and slices of time, not unlike the rings of a tree. No two rings are alike, but each accretes to the next, creating,...
Out of the Wreckage
A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
A thrilling new route to a better society
A toxic ideology of extreme competition and individualism has come to dominate our world. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights...
A Feather’S Tale
An African Feathers Fate
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
A feathers journey starts when it becomes detached from its source, the Blue CraneSouth Africas National bird. Eleven-year-old author, Ammaarah, uses her imagination to describe the feathers journey through the African savannah. The feather symbolizes the commonality of all the elements of nature:...
by Midwest Journal Press, T. Gilbert, Dr. Robert C. Worstell
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
The first domestication of the horse, one of the greatest achievements of man in the animal kingdom, was not the work of a day; but like all other great accomplishments, was brought about by a gradual process of discoveries and experiments.
He first subdued the more subordinate animals, on...
by Wilhelm Reich
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
These companion volumes, long out of print, are now presented together for the first time so that the reader may better grasp their essential unity. In Ether, God and Devil, Wilhelm Reich describes the process of functional thinking and reveals how the inner logic of this objective thought technique...
Evolution
Its nature, its evidence, and its relation to religious thought (Illustrations)
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
The subject of the following work may be expressed in three questions: What is evolution? Is it true? What then? Surely, there are no questions of the day more burning than these. Much has been written on each of them, addressed to different classes of minds: some to the scientific, some to the popular,...
Beyond Your Doorstep
A Handbook to the Country
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The inspiring classic on the virtues of embracing the great outdoors from the national bestselling author of The Dog Who Came to Stay.
Over the course of his career, Hal Borland wrote eight nature books and hundreds of “outdoor editorials” for the Sunday New York Times, extolling the virtues...
The Wild Marsh
Four Seasons at Home in Montana
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
An account of one year in the Yaak Valley wilderness range, by the acclaimed naturalist and memoirist.
Beginning with his family settling in for the long northwestern Montana winter, and capturing all the subtle harbingers of change that mark each passing month—the initial cruel teasing of...
The Secret Lives of Chickens
or Tales from the Chickenyard and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Chickens are fascinating, social, both gentle and fierce, cunning, and clever. They figure things out, they plan, and they manipulate.
The Secret Lives of Chickens pulls us into a time and place that seem simpler but actually are not, because of the feathered inhabitants within. This is about...
Home
Chronicle of a North Country Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Home is like a leaf on a tree: other people, other homes, are the other leaves. They live beneath the same sky, share the same memories, survive the same storms. But one leaf is a solitude. After twenty-five years on a New Brunswick farm, award-winning Canadian author Beth Powning came to understand...