Plant Life category: 1095 books
by Christopher Merrill
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
In the course of researching dogwood trees, beloved poet and essayist Christopher Merrill realized that a number of formative moments in his life had some connection to the tree named-according to one writer-because its fruit was not fit for a dog. As he approached his sixtieth birthday, Merrill began...
Biocommunication
Sign-Mediated Interactions between Cells and Organisms
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
All coordination between cells, organs, and organisms depends on successful biocommunicative processes. There are abundant cases of communication in the biological world, both within (intraspecific) and between (interspecific) single-cell and multicellular microorganisms and higher animal forms.
Split...
Everyday Objects
Picturesque Aspects of Natural History (Illustrations)
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
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The very favourable reception accorded both by Press and Public to the "Circle of the Year," has induced me to prepare a second volume, similar in design, but dealing with different branches of the same subject. As the former was founded on the first series of a popular...
by Robert A. Vines
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
A comprehensive and compact field guide, Trees of Central Texas introduces 186 species of tree life in Central Texas, an area roughly the region of the Edwards Plateau and bordered by the Balcones Escarpment on the south and east, the Pecos River on the west, and the Texas Plains and the Llano Uplift...
Reforesting Faith
What Trees Teach Us About the Nature of God and His Love for Us
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
The Bible talks about trees more than any living creation other than people. Perhaps you've missed the forest...and the trees.
In this groundbreaking walk through Scripture, former physician and carpenter Dr. Matthew Sleeth makes the convincing case why trees are essential to every Christian's...
by Matthew Clemente
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Come follow the life cycle of a leaf! Learn how its created, what it does, how it changes, and the fun you can have with a lot of them! Practice reading or follow along at any age with unique illustrations in this easy-to-read, educational rhyming book. Youll learn to love this story filled with fun facts about leaves raked up into a bittersweet ending.
Plan Bee
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hardest-Working Creatures on thePla net
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
A guided tour inside the world of bees
Overtaxed and underrecognized-and now disappearing in alarming numbers- bees are the unsung heroes of the food chain, essential for the pollination of more than ninety of the crops we eat. The hardworking, humble, and matriarchal bee finally gets her due...
The Songs of Trees
Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature’s most magnificent networkers — trees
“Both a love song to trees, an exploration of their biology, and a wonderfully philosophical analysis of their role they play in human history and in modern culture.”...
The Tree
A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
A blend of history, science, philosophy, and environmentalism, The Tree is an engaging and elegant look at the life of the tree and what modern research tells us about their future.
There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that...
Limber
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
“As the author reveals in these charming essays, nature is imbued with enticing mysteries, and trees can be agents of salvation.” —Kirkus Reviews
Angela Pelster’s startling essay collection charts the world’s history through its trees: through roots in the ground, rings across wood, and...
by Fiona Stafford
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
A lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meanings Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship with trees has many dimensions beyond mere practicality....
Wildwood
A Journey Through Trees
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Here, published for the first time in the United States, is the last book by Roger Deakin, famed British nature writer and icon of the environmentalist movement. In Deakin's glorious meditation on wood, the "fifth element" -- as it exists in nature, in our culture, and in our souls -- the reader accompanies...
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by Various, William Kerr Higley
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
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ABOUT PARROTS.
Naturalists place the parrot group at the head of bird creation. This is done, not, of course, because parrots can talk, but because they display, on the whole, a greater amount of intelligence, of cleverness and adaptability to circumstances than...
by Don MacCaskill
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
In his introduction, Don MacCaskill wrote modestly, 'I think I became a naturalist'. He was, in fact, one of Scotland's foremost naturalists and a remarkable wildlife photographer as well. In a flashback to his early years in Kilmartin, a village in Argyllshire, we learn of his awakening interest...