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"Amazing things happen under the Earth's waters: the sea glows mysteriously at night, the smallest organisms (plankton) have the greatest power, and the fish, which seem so taciturn, communicate with each other loudly. In Blue Wonder, Frauke Bagusche, a German marine biologist, takes us on a fascinating dive beneath the ocean to recount her personal experiences with the world's smallest and largest creatures, explaining, for example, the origins of...
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Charles G.D. Roberts's fame rests on a series of very popular animal stories. Charles G.D. Roberts was a distinguished writer of his time who published more than forty volumes of poetry, romance fiction, and nature writing - making him one of the most popular writers of his time. He pioneered the animal story in which he went beyond surface elements of nature and endowed his animal "characters" with qualities of feeling and intelligence that brought...
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The author of Alder Music, Gary Saunders returns with an evocative, lyrical, and immersive collection of personal essays on our relationship with nature and with each other.
In nine sections, Earthkeeping ruminates on the necessity of love and earthkeeping, on forage fish and robin songs, and on the stewardship of our ecological landscape. Offering an antidote to the world's anxiety about climate change, plastic pollution, and biodiversity loss, Saunders...
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Walking Through Spring follows Graham Hoyland's journey as he creates a new national trail, walking with the Spring from the south coast in March up to the border with Scotland, which he reaches on the longest day: the twenty-first of June.
In Walking Through Spring Graham Hoyland walks north with Spring, from the South Coast to the Borders, tracing a new national trail. He connects a labyrinth of ancient footpaths, marking each mile by planting...
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Here is a fine companion for any paddler, wanderer, or dreamer with a love for the wild. What you have here is not one more how-to manual for paddlers. These pages comprise a why-do volume exploring the spiritual core of paddle trip experience. Tim McDonnell writes with clarity, spirit, and self-effacing good humor, taking you along on several amazing wilderness journeys. Here you will share explorations into the wild that are fueled by something...
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A wondrous and haunting deep-dive into landscape and culture.
"Countless are they, the people who for one reason or another – or for no reason at all – have met their fate on the beach."
This fascinating essay collection, translated from Swedish, walks global shores, looks to the sea and transcends the everyday. Beaches have shadows. They are places of tragedy that look upon the unfathomable abyss of the ocean.
Per Högselius skirts our history,...
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Écoute la Terre qui murmure évoque la pandémie actuelle, la COVID-19, suffisamment surprenante pour qu'on en parle. Toutefois, ici, le virus n'est qu'un point de départ pour nous amener à réfléchir sur notre façon de vivre et à prendre conscience de nos dérives afin d'y remédier. À partir d'un état des lieux de la société actuelle, l'auteure nous propose d'envisager de nouveaux modes de vie, sans impact dommageable sur la nature et...
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Fungi are unlike any other living thing-they almost magically unique. Welcome to this astonishing world...
Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes to frozen tundra. They can invade our bodies and live between our toes or our floorboards. They are unwelcome intruders or vastly expensive treats, and symbols of both death and eternal life. But, despite their familiar presence, there's still much to learn about the eruption, growth, and decay...
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This essay collection draws on natural history, urban ecology, and environmental politics to consider New York City's complex relationship to nature.
How can a hawk nesting above Fifth Avenue become a citywide phenomenon? Why does a sudden butterfly migration at Coney Island energize the community? What makes the presence of a community garden or an empty lot ripple so differently through the surrounding neighborhood? Is the city an oasis or a desert...
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« Le 18 mars 2020, le monde s'est arrêté en 24 heures, mis à genoux par le coronavirus. À la faveur d'un pas de cté en Cerdagne, j'ai entrepris un voyage immobile. J'ai ouvert les guides botaniques des fleurs forestières de la région et découvert dans ce microcosme une nouvelle projection du temps dans l'espace. Les nuances subtiles et les contrastes feutrés ont éveillé mes sens. Leurs insignifiantes différences me furent une révélation......
11) L'air du temps
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L'air du temps évoque le temps qu'il fait dans treize pays différents, et dans diverses circonstances. Ce tour du monde est l'occasion de découvrir, dans le cadre de douze nouvelles, que des événements climatiques peuvent être des aventures humaines remarquables. Ainsi est éclairée la capacité des femmes et des hommes à comprendre, à s'adapter, à subir, à résister et à lutter quand le climat est à la manœuvre.
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In Russia's Far East sits the wild Ussuri Kray, a region known for its remote highlands and rugged mountain passes where tigers and bears roam the cliffs, and salmon and lenok navigate the rivers. In this collection of travel writing by famed Russian explorer and naturalist Vladimir K. Arsenyev (1872-1930), readers are shuttled back to the turn of the 20th century when the Russian Empire was reeling from its defeat in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)...
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Il est temps de tout mettre en œuvre pour un nouveau monde, o écologie et bioéthiques sont les maîtres-mots!
«I have a dream», dit un célèbre pasteur chrétien, prophète de la fraternité. Moi aussi, j'ai un rêve pour notre planète et pour nous, les humains qui la peuplons. La science montre l'admirable complexité et l'étonnante cohérence de la vie humaine, ainsi que sa nécessaire relation avec l'environnement, pensée comme une alliance....
14) Les Forêts
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Extrait : "Les végétaux, et particulièrement les forêts, qui sont de vastes agglomérations de végétaux géants, jouent un rle capital dans l'économie de notre globe. La première, la plus importante des fonctions qu'ils remplissent, c'est de travailler incessamment à la composition de l'air que respirent l'homme et tous les animaux. Nous leur devons la vie. Notre existence est indissolublement attachée à la leur."
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15) Mistletoe Winter
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Mistletoe Winter is a collection of essays on our environment, nature and wildlife, covering biodiversity, habitat conservation, rewilding and individual species. As in his companion volume, Cottongrass Summer, Roy Dennis balances his alarm at the crisis confronting the natural world with his own sense of optimism that new generations can make crucial changes for the future. His essays are informed by his considerable experience of working in nature...
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With Mountain Madness, Clinton Crockett Peters chronicles his travels and personal transformation from a West Texas evangelical to mountain guide-addict to humbled humanist after a near-fatal injury in Japan's Chichibu Mountains. From 2007 to 2010, Peters lived in Kosuge Village (population nine hundred), nestled in central Japan's peaks, where he was the only foreigner in the rugged town. Using these three years as a frame, this essay collection...
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This collection of writings and images by the legendary Big Bend photographer offers adventure, history, personal musings, and natural beauty.
Photographer-naturalist Peter Koch first visited Big Bend National Park in February, 1945, on assignment to take promotional pictures for the National Park Service. He planned to spend a couple of weeks, and ended up staying for the rest of his life. Koch's magnificent photographs and documentary films...
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A Texas naturalist shares an intimate record of the wooded ravine near his home in this almanac based on decades of journal entries.
In the mid-1960s, naturalist Fred Gehlbach and his family built a house on the edge of a wooded ravine in Central Texas. On daily walks over the hills, creek hollows, and fields of the ravine, Gehlbach has observed the cycles of weather and seasons, the annual migrations of birds, and the life cycles of animals...
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This collection of river literature compiles both classic and cutting-edge essays of twenty-one writers who draw on their wisdom, compassion, and ecological consciousness to create an original and inspiring collection borne from their unique connection with the natural world.
Tales from the River features original writing by award winning authors including Anthony Birch, author of Ghost River, winner of the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Award...
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Reprendre à frais nouveaux notre rapport à notre environnement, à la terre qui nous nourrit, n'est plus une option. Trop de dégradations ont déjà compromis notre avenir commun.
Mathieu Yon a fait le choix de s'établir comme maraîcher après des études de philosophie. Sa rencontre avec Simone Weil et sa spiritualité du travail l'a bouleversé au point de le conduire à mettre lui-même les mains dans la terre, goûtant la sagesse qui habite...
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