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I pulled off my boots, shaking ever-present grit from the toes, and stripped down until my only attire was a headlamp. "Now there's one for the fashion runways," I thought wryly. More aging adventurer than willowy Milan supermodel, I eased into the impossibly cool, aqua water and felt the floor quickly fall away. My buddy Neil followed behind. We stroked across the Olympic pool-sized lake, which at its center seemed to be 20 crystalline feet deep,...
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Years of walks in an upstate New York wildlife management area
inspired two writer-photographers to create this volume of poems,
essays, and nature images. Alternately meditative and humorous,
spiritual, and earthy, seasonal and timeless, this book by Diane
Kavanaugh-Black and Carole Fults illustrates the growing friendship
between two people and between themselves and the natural world.
The woods and paths at Partridge Run Wilderness Management...
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VIRTUAL WORLD: This world is neither dependent nor independent. It is a derivative of the circular world, because it was deliberately installed for control, colonization, modernization, and globalization. The virtual world is a carbon copy of the circular, mirroring itself in every sense possible in the circular world. It has a more distinct quality of possession, though only in the body and spirit, and without soul or mind. This implies that the...
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While playing at the beach, two boys begin to wonder why the sky is blue and ask their mother to explain the reason to them. As they are very young, their mother needs to decide how best to explain to her boys. She discusses the phenomenon of the blue sky in a manner that even her six year old can understand. While addressing their initial query, the boys come up with several other related questions, and the mother answers them all with simple facts...
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El propósito de este libro es introducir una práctica espiritual en la que se realiza trabajo co-creativo con la naturaleza sintiendo nuestra unión con ella porque estamos consciente de que somos parte de ella, uno con ella. Nuestra unión con la naturaleza nos lleva inevitablemente a unión con el Creador, con el Todo. Para esta práctica espiritual no es necesario tener una finca o jardín. Aún si residimos en un apartamento pequeño podemos...
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The author, a botanist, horticulturalist, and journalist of long standing, embarks on a wide-ranging exploration of the world around her armed with a gift for noticing what most of us miss in life. She trains a fresh, clear eye on the minute as easily as the immense, showing us how to appreciate the brilliance and majesty of what can so easily pass for the mundane and inconsequential. The range of her interests is simply extraordinary, and she attends...
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Travel Canada's fabulous Dempster Highway with nature recordist John Neville, the Birdsong Man. Experience the Natural History of this tundra wilderness highway in the Yukon and NWT, the land of midnight sun. Enjoy bird encounters from a nature recordist's point of view. Meet some of the historical characters in Goldrush Dawson. Explore with Mackenzie and Franklin in this area above the Arctic Circle. Feel heartache experienced by the Lost Patrol...
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"All Nature Speaks" is a book for all animal lovers. No matter who you are, you'll be inspired and enlightened by these true stories of Nancy communicating with pets and wildlife. From a lost puppy that she finds without ever meeting until he's an adult, to a dolphin's message for all of us, she demonstrates how passion for life can aid all living beings. Everything in life is connected. Nature speaks a common language, and we are capable of using...
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An old man of the African bush and his city-raised grandson go on an adventure to teach the boy about the wonders and hazards of the bush country. This old hunter has spent most of his life in the rugged African wilds and, though he cannot read or write, he is an expert of the first order on life in the bush. They eventually meet up with the boy's uncle in a small river village that has recently been set upon by an illegal poaching operation. The...
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Poised atop the high Himalayas is a frightening daisy chain of fragile glacial lakes, all produced by glacial melting as a result of climate change. When the lakes burst, the torrents of water sweep entire populations in their wake. In A Deluge of Consequences, intrepid journalist Jacques Leslie takes us along on a mythic, spell-binding trip to the bucolic kingdom of Bhutan, where the planet's next environmental disaster is set to unfold. Bhutan's...
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For more than forty years, J P Endres directed a camp in northern Minnesota. There, he taught generations of youngsters the value of nature, the importance of working together, and the joys that can come from a life lead with purpose and meaning. Here are reflections from his life as a camp director, a father, a son, a husband, an educator, and a man for whom love of wilderness shaped a career. Portage from the Past is part adventure story, part exploration...
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"This Is Hope" is a crossover book for self-identified environmentalists, species rights advocates, vegans and vegetarians, those dedicated to true sustainability, fish and wildlife "management" professionals, students of deep ecology, and those who want to know the biocentric solutions for our dietary, consumer, and reproductive choices. Over a span of three decades, I managed campaigns for species rights and environmental organizations. We operated...
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For tens of thousands of years humans have found answers to life's greatest mysteries through the contemplation of their relationships with the wild creatures in our lives. Today, where so much of our lives takes place in cities, or in buildings insulated from the natural world, it is often through our companion animals--dogs, cats, even reptiles and fish--that we experience the sacred connections with life's great Mysteries. In this book the author,...
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There are ghosts in the mountains, there are whispers in the wind. Voices from the river are, carried through the trees, an invitation to journey through waters and woods and etched canyons to connect to purpose-and-truth and meaning.
Sermons in Stones is a collection of eighteen beautifully, crafted short stories, anecdotes, and personal narratives offering thoughtful and profound reflection on the author's life experiences in a "mountain wilderness...
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And so, instead of reciting figures and spewing forth yet more apocalyptic forecasts, Matjaž and I decided to highlight the communities and individuals who are bravely taking on the calamity. It is high time to add them all up, the members of the homo sapiens true elite who have chosen not to be swept away in the tide of indifference and arrogance, the visionary women and men who are not banking on miraculous salvation from elsewhere.
Our ambition...
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Explore the world of urban nature in this journal-style memoir of a year in Boulder, Colorado, a city known for its striking setting at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Much more than a starry-eyed paean to nature's wonders, Pieces of Light is a 'journey of the heart,' where Tweit's year is spent reaffirming her bonds, healing her spirit, and settling her young family into a powerfully alluring landscape - until they must move away for work in a distant...
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Henry Beston, a gifted writer from the last century, came up with this description of wildlife: "We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices...
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Hoy, la crisis del ambiente requiere de un cambio radical en el comportamiento humano. Los enfoques tradicionales en educación ambiental, basados en la mera transmisión de conocimientos o en experiencias al aire libre, han fracasado en reducir el impacto de nuestras acciones. Ajay Rastogy, aprovechando lo mejor de las tradiciones filosóficas orientales y occidentales, sustentadas en referencias científicas actuales, nos propone un nuevo enfoque...
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This guide is to teach others how to protect themselves. The author, Martin Lisius is a veteran storm chaser, producer, director and cinematographer. He is sometimes called "The Storm Whisperer" because of his intimate knowledge of severe weather. This severe weather guide will help you prepare, monitor and act through all types of hazardous weather. As you incorporate each helpful instruction you will find that it is a "must" for anyone affected...
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Imagine: you're blindsided on a dark highway by a half-mile-wide tornado.
Or worse: you're aboard a commercial jetliner brought to the ground by a powerful thunderstorm-the deadliest plane crash in Texas history.
In Menacing Skies: Texas Weather and Stories of Survival, Dan Henry shares incredible stories of survival from people who have come face-to-face with nature's most violent storms. Dan has covered every type of weather event during his three-decade...
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