Guia da natureza

One of Australia’s most revered environmental scholars and its most distinguished landscape essayist. George Seddon was renowned for championing a ‘sense of place’, giving that phrase a uniquely Aust …

Explorations of plant consciousness and human interactions with the natural world. From apples to ayahuasca, coffee to kurrajong, passionflower to peyote, plants are conscious beings. How they intera …

Walden is one of the best-known non-fiction books ever written by an American. It details Thoreau’s sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Eme …

From the grandeur of the Great Plains to the solitude of the northern woods, from the intensity of a summer storm to the quiet redemption of a fresh blanket of snow, Kent Nerburn’s Native Echoes pays …

‘Gould himself is a rare and wonderful animal—a member of the endangered species known as the ruby-throated polymath. . . . [He] is a leading theorist on large-scale patterns in evolution . . . [and] …

Learning from Thoreau is an intimate intellectual walk with America’s most edgy and original environmentalist. The thrust of the book consists not in learning “about” Thoreau from an intermediary but …

The ‘Writers on…’ series is a collection of extracts, anecdotes, quotations and occasional philosophical musings from the world’s most influential authors. It celebrates writers who have an individ …

This little book provides delightful, down-to-earth insights into what it’s like to actually live with one of the grandest, most beautiful animals on our planet, the peacock. It gives loads of tips o …

Connect to the Magical Spirit of Mother Earth I AM a child of the earth.  I take off my shoes and feel her heartbeat through the soles of my feet in the dark green grass.  We are part of ea …

Jim Dean, longtime editor of Wildlife in North Carolina, offers his personal observations on the pleasures and frustrations of hunting, fishing, camping, and other outdoor pursuits. Dogs That Point, …