Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Who Learns Will Love: The Story of Peace Valley Nature Center by C. Constable

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  Summary: (Amazon) WHO LEARNS WILL LOVE anecdotally and pictorially recounts the tale of a determined, creative woman who establishes a Bu...
Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Conversations with Birds by P. Kumar

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  Summary (Milkweed Editions):  “Birds are my almanac. They tune me into the seasons, and into myself.” So begins this lively collection of...
Monday, June 26, 2023

Notes on the Landscape of Home by Susan Shetterly

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(Amazon) Su mmary ( Good Reads):  “If you pay attention to the land where you live, you enter into conversation with it, until it becomes a ...
Sunday, June 4, 2023

Feb, Bog and Swamp by A. Proulx

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  Summary (Amazon): From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx—whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth—come...
Sunday, May 7, 2023

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

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  Summary (Good Reads):  Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil...
Friday, March 31, 2023

Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run the World by O. Milman

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  Summary: (Amazon) A devastating examination of how collapsing insect populations worldwide threaten everything from wild birds to the food...
Friday, March 3, 2023

Prayers from the Ark and The Creatures' Choir by C. Bernos de Gasztold

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  (Amazon) Summary (Amazon): These prayers were first published, in French, in 1947 by a private press. Rumer Godden discovered a volume of...