Kategoria BISAC: Nature >> General

The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver.

"In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be."

So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries...

Few places on the planet can boast the diversity of natural landscape found in San Diego County. From the enormous Anza-Borrego desert to the Peninsular Range of mountains to the coastal wetlands of the Pacific Ocean, the breadth of San Diego County's environment is truly remarkable.

Priscilla Lister, seasoned journalist, former newspaper columnist and avid hiker, guides others down 260 trails that offer beautiful scenery, physical challenges and an up-close experience with natural flora and fauna. You'll find trail directions as well as historical tales about the natives and...

I have searched out my Solidified Solid Human Rights and have formalised my searched out findings in a Logical Method called Dictum De Omni ET Nullo Deductive Method or Mathematical Method or Cartesian Method] in the two volumes of 'Kitaaba Wal-Hikmata' or 'Manifested Nature and the Utility of One's Upright Logic'. In other words, the searched out 62 sixty two] findings shared in the 'Kitaaba Wal-Hikmata' or 'Manifested Nature and the Utility of One's Upright Logic' are not independent but relative. My Solitary Rights or Individual Faith and Belief are the components between Revelation...

As a teacher-poet, William Yager uses the metaphor of traveling through to symbolize our life's journey, suffused by innumerable unique and individual encounters and experiences--some with other people, some with nature, and some with the spirit of God. In his first book, Dr. Yager suggested that we may all need a wayside, a place or state of mind where we can stop and take a reflective breath. In Traveling Through, he explores, at a deep and intuitive level, our encounters with nature, the extravagant spirit of God, the culture surrounding us, and the countercultural essence of the...

John Nichols fell in love with nature as a child when his father and grandfather, both naturalists, taught him the names of the flowers and trees, the herons and butterflies they encountered on walks in rural Long Island, New York. When Nichols moved to New Mexico as a young man, his passion for the natural world grew. He began photographing the land and critters observable just outside his kitchen window . . . and far beyond. In My Heart Belongs to Nature, Nichols records his forty-five-year connection to the Taos valley and its mountains, where he still lives. His engaging prose...

This memoir was written to help tell the story of Dr. Jane Abucha, DNP, as a mother, professional nurse, and human being with ambitions and big dreams. For Jane, a dream is a dream, and it doesn’t matter how long it takes you. Just be focused and remain persistent on it until you reach your goal. The book also tells the untold stories of many others who live under these same conditions as refugees in South Sudan and who also go through the challenges of life in the United States of America (USA). It further outlines office politics that working parents face in the nursing profession,...