Nature category: 119170 books
My Nature Book
A Journal and Activity Book for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Hike a trail, climb a tree! Smell the flowers, watch the birds! Explore the world!
Nature is full of adventures, but sometimes it’s easy to forget things you felt or saw. What did those animal tracks look like? How did you feel when you gazed at the starry sky on a calm, clear night?
My...
The Invention of Nature
Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism.
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Nature Wars
The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
This may be hard to believe but it is very likely that more people live in closer proximity to more wild animals, birds and trees in the eastern United States today than anywhere on the planet at any time in history. For nature lovers, this should be wonderful news -- unless, perhaps, you are one...
The Fertile Earth – Nature's Energies in Agriculture, Soil Fertilisation and Forestry
Volume 3 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2000
How does nature work? When one looks closely at the enormously complex web of life, it is impossible not to be caught by the wonder of how all living things – including rocks and crystals – are interconnected. Just as there is thought behind action, so there is energy behind matter.
The...
Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
The nineteenth-century roots of environmental writing in American literature are often mentioned in passing and sometimes studied piece by piece. Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature brings together numerous explorations...
Thoreau on Nature
Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!” -Henry David Thoreau
Since his death in 1862, Henry David Thoreau has left an indelible mark on the American mind. A vocal champion of simple...
by Kaleeg Hainsworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.
Father Kaleeg Hainsworth, an Eastern Orthodox priest with a lifetime of experience in the Canadian wilderness, grounds this manifesto in the literary, philosophical,...
by Jim Warren
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
This book describes life long learning expressed often as allegory or metaphor, but derived from life long events. The braided cord reflects the union of body, mind and soul, but because I am a surgeon, the body is topmost in my mind and my book. My exploration of flesh, and the rest, derives from 40...
Speaking for Nature
The Literary Naturalists, from Transcendentalism to the Birth of the American Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Beginning with Thoreau, nature writers not only have influenced our appreciation of the natural world but also have helped to preserve the American wilderness, from the Maine Woods to Yosemite and the Sierra. Writer and activist Paul Brooks presents narrative portraits of great literary naturalists,...
by Carol Kaesuk Yoon
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
Finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology: the surprising, untold story about the poetic and deeply human (cognitive) capacity to name the natural world.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus set out to order and name the entire...
How to Raise a Wild Child
The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
**“This timely, significant work carries a far-reaching message for families and the planet.”—Publishers Weekly
“In a time when the connection between humans and the rest of nature is most vulnerable, Scott offers parents and teachers a book of encouragement and knowledge, and to children,...
by Peterborough Field Naturalists
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
Here you will find a wealth of information on the fauna, flora, and natural wonders of the Kawarthas.
The Kawarthas sit astride the Canadian Shield and fertile lands to the south. This is cottage country a place where people are closer to nature and where children and adults remark on the sightings...
Nature Next Door
Cities and Trees in the American Northeast
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, and changes in the timber industry have together brought about a return of northeastern forests. Although...
The Work of Nature
How The Diversity Of Life Sustains Us
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
"We do not question that flesh and bone and leaf litter will decay to dust, that seeds will sprout season after season and find renewed nourishment in the soil, that rivers can flow endlessly without running dry, that we can breathe a lifetime without depleting the air of oxygen.... What humans have...