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This brief but ambitious book explores our relationship with nature through the imagery we use when we talk about Mother...

"I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourth-grader. Never before in...

Described as 'Britain's greatest living nature writer', Richard Mabey has revealed his passion for the natural world in eloquent stories...

In the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression. For...

The idea of a balance of nature has been a dominant part of Western philosophy since before Aristotle, and it...

Vonnie Roudette has created a seminal work of Caribbean Nature writings revealing creative messages for community transformation through daily observation....

Human health and well-being are inextricably linked to nature; our connection to the natural world is part of our biological...

Nature is a destination, but you don’t have to travel anywhere to find it. Just open the door and step...

NEW SCIENCE / ECOLOGY ""Of the truly great books appearing today The Secret Teachings of Plants is easily...

The drive to own the natural world in twentieth-century America seems virtually limitless. Signs of this national penchant for possessing...

Trees hold a powerful place in American constructions of what is good in nature and the environment. As we attempt...

From rainbows, river meanders, and shadows to spider webs, honeycombs, and the markings on animal coats, the visible world is...

How heavy is that cloud? Why can you see farther in rain than in fog? Why are the droplets on...

The sweeping nature of the poems in Poems of Nature, Faith, and Life and the richness of their wisdom portrays...

For many of us, thinking about the future conjures up images of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: a post-apocalyptic dystopia stripped...

Whatever your interest is, this month-by-month guide to the key natural events in Central and Eastern Ontario lets you know...

The countryside is changing faster than ever. Fifty years of conservation achievements in the UK are now being confronted by...

Typically, cities and nature are perceived as geographic opposites, cities being manufactured social creations, and nature being outside of human...

Not much can be said with certainty about the life of Claudius Aelianus, known to us as Aelian. He was...

For most of human history, we have lived our daily lives in a close relationship with the land. Yet now,...