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Drawn to Nature

Through the Journals of Clare Walker Leslie

By: Clare Walker Leslie

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Drawn to Nature

Through the Journals of Clare Walker Leslie

By: Clare Walker Leslie

Reveling in the wonders of nature doesnÕt have to be reserved for vacation. By simply taking a few minutes to look up and observe the hawks hovering over their nest at the top of a city building, or to look down and note the variety of weeds growing in a small patch of earth, or just to glance through the window and appreciate the shapes of the clouds moving by, anyone can connect with natureÑanywhere, anytime. Clare Walker Leslie, author of the bestselling book Keeping a Nature Journal, has spent 25 years teaching and showing people how simple and rewarding it is to notice and record local nature. Nothing is more inspiring than the pages of her nature journals, which feature her daily recordings of small, but amazing natural events sheÕs seen while walking the dog, sitting in a park with her children, or driving around city streets. Drawn to Nature features a selection of LeslieÕs journal pages, arranged to inspire the reader to do as she does: look up, look down, look out and around, bring bits of nature indoors to observe and study, or take your eyes for a walk around the neighborhood. Using a combination of quick, impressionistic watercolors with more detailed pen and pencil drawings, along with the written word, Leslie invites readers to share in the pleasure of her nature watching, and to experience the joy of seeing and connecting with nature wherever they live, amidst the whirl of daily life. For journal keepers, nature lovers, birdwatchers, artists, and anyone interested in using nature as a source for self-reflection or meditation, this book will be a welcome companion and source of inspiration.

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Storey Publishing

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1580176143

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9781580176149

Keeping a Nature Journal, 3rd Edition

Deepen Your Connection with the Natural World All Around You

By: Clare Walker Leslie

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Keeping a Nature Journal, 3rd Edition

Deepen Your Connection with the Natural World All Around You

By: Clare Walker Leslie

Originally published in 2000 with endorsements from E.O. Wilson and Jane Goodall, Clare Walker Leslie’s Keeping a Nature Journal was at the forefront of the nature observation and journaling movement. Leslie’s approach has long been acclaimed for its accessible style of teaching people to see, witness, and appreciate the wonders of nature, and her classic guide is still used by individuals, groups, and educators ranging from elementary school teachers to college-level instructors. The third edition features more of Leslie’s step-by-step drawing techniques, a new selection of pages from her own journals (which she’s kept for 40 years), and an expanded range of prompts for observing particular aspects of the natural world in any location. With an emphasis on learning to see and observe, Leslie shows how drawing nature doesn’t require special skills, artistic ability, or even nature knowledge, and it is a tool everyone can use to record observations and experience the benefits of a stronger connection to the natural world.

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Storey Publishing, LLC

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1635862299

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9781635862294

The Curious Nature Guide

Explore the Natural Wonders All Around You

By: Clare Walker Leslie

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The Curious Nature Guide

Explore the Natural Wonders All Around You

By: Clare Walker Leslie

With dozens of simple prompts and exercises, best-selling author, naturalist, and artist Clare Walker Leslie invites you to step outside for just a few minutes a day, reignite your sense of wonder about the natural world, and discover the peace and grounding that come from connecting with nature. Using stunning photography as well as the author’s own original illustrations, The Curious Nature Guide will inspire you to use all of your senses to notice the colors, sounds, smells, and textures of the trees, plants, animals, birds, insects, clouds, and other features that can be seen right outside your home, no matter where you live. Sketch or write about one exceptional nature image each day; learn to identify cloud types and the weather they bring; or create a record of what you see each day as you walk your dog. Easy, enjoyable, and enlightening, these simple exercises will transform your view of the world and your place within it.

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1612125093

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9781612125091

The Nature Connection

An Outdoor Workbook for Kids, Families, and Classrooms

By: Clare Walker Leslie

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The Nature Connection

An Outdoor Workbook for Kids, Families, and Classrooms

By: Clare Walker Leslie

Clare Walker Leslie shows kids how to experience nature with all five senses, whether they live in the countryside, a major city, or somewhere in between. Guiding children through inspiring activities like sketching wildlife, observing constellations, collecting leaves, keeping a weather journal, and watching bird migrations, The Nature Connection encourages kids to engage with the world outside and promotes a lifelong love of nature.

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1603425314

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Drawn to Nature

Through the Journals of Clare Walker Leslie

By: Clare Walker Leslie

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Through the Journals of Clare Walker Leslie

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1580176143

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The Ancient Celtic Festivals

and How We Celebrate Them Today

By: Clare Walker Leslie,Frank E. Gerace

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The Ancient Celtic Festivals

and How We Celebrate Them Today

By: Clare Walker Leslie,Frank E. Gerace

Travel 2,500 years back in time to find out where many of our modern holiday traditions originated. • Charming full-color ink and watercolor illustrations throughout. • This valuable resource for teachers and parents uses hands-on activities, natural science facts, and observations to explore the concepts of measuring time, making calendars, and marking seasonal celebrations. • Shows how our popular holiday traditions are rooted in nature, beginning as the seasonal festivals of an ancient society. Children love holiday celebrations but most don't know why they wear masks on Halloween or watch for the groundhog on February 2. Now they can discover that many of our modern traditions started with the festivals of the ancient Celts. The Celts were farming people, so their festivals marked the important events of the agricultural year. Imbolc, in very early spring, celebrated the birth of new lambs, while Samhain, in late fall, celebrated the end of the growing season and the beginning of winter. If we look at our modern calendar, we'll find Groundhog Day falling where Imbolc did, Halloween where the Celts celebrated Samhain, and a host of other holiday correspondences. That's because descendants of the Celts were among the first Europeans to settle in the New World, bringing their holiday traditions with them. In a world of electric lights and store-bought foods, The Ancient Celtic Festivals can help children make the connections to nature that their ancestors did. Whimsically illustrated activity pages invite them to bake a harvest corn bread, stage a spring festival, or warm up the cold depths of winter with hot spiced cider. Teachers, librarians, parents, and children alike will welcome this book as a fun-filled resource.

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140

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Simon and Schuster

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1594776040

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9781594776045

Creating a Bird-Watcher's Journal

Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-207

By: Clare Walker Leslie,Charles E. Roth

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Creating a Bird-Watcher's Journal

Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-207

By: Clare Walker Leslie,Charles E. Roth

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

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1603426213

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The Curious Nature Guide

Explore the Natural Wonders All Around You

By: Clare Walker Leslie

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Explore the Natural Wonders All Around You

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1612128130

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How to Look at a Bird

Open Your Eyes to the Joy of Watching and Knowing Birds

By: Clare Walker Leslie

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How to Look at a Bird

Open Your Eyes to the Joy of Watching and Knowing Birds

By: Clare Walker Leslie

Bestselling author and acclaimed nature illustrator Clare Walker Leslie invites beginning birdwatchers to hone their observational skills with this easy-to-use visual guide. Using her signature nature journal illustrations, Leslie shows readers the key clues to look for, from the shape of the beak or talons to distinctive feather colorings, flight patterns, and behavioral traits. She offers simple prompts that encourage readers to embrace curiosity and take a closer look: Where are you? What season is it? How is that bird moving or eating? With an emphasis on the birds that are most likely to be seen at a feeder, in a city park, or at a nature preserve, How to Look at a Bird makes bird watching, identification, and appreciation accessible to everyone, no matter where they live.

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Storey Publishing, LLC

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1635866502

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9781635866506

Keeping a Nature Journal, 3rd Edition

Deepen Your Connection with the Natural World All Around You

By: Clare Walker Leslie

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Deepen Your Connection with the Natural World All Around You

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Metaphysical Animals

How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life

By: Clare Mac Cumhaill,Rachael Wiseman

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Metaphysical Animals

How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life

By: Clare Mac Cumhaill,Rachael Wiseman

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A vibrant portrait of four college friends—Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley—who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men were away fighting World War II. The history of European philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In Metaphysical Animals, a pioneering group biography, Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman offer a compelling alternative. In the mid-twentieth century Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch were philosophy students at Oxford when most male undergraduates and many tutors were conscripted away to fight in the Second World War. Together, these young women, all friends, developed a philosophy that could respond to the war’s darkest revelations. Neither the great Enlightenment thinkers of the past, the logical innovators of the early twentieth century, or the new Existentialist philosophy trickling across the Channel, could make sense of this new human reality of limitless depravity and destructive power, the women felt. Their answer was to bring philosophy back to life. We are metaphysical animals, they realized, creatures that can question their very being. Who am I? What is freedom? What is human goodness? The answers we give, they believed, shape what we will become. Written with expertise and flair, Metaphysical Animals is a lively portrait of women who shared ideas, but also apartments, clothes and even lovers. Mac Cumhaill and Wiseman show how from the disorder and despair of the war, four brilliant friends created a way of ethical thinking that is there for us today.

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1984898981

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The Nature Connection

An Outdoor Workbook for Kids, Families, and Classrooms

By: Clare Walker Leslie

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An Outdoor Workbook for Kids, Families, and Classrooms

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Creating a Birdwatcher's Journal

By: Clare Walker Leslie,Charles Edmund Roth

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By: Clare Walker Leslie,Charles Edmund Roth

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This Way Daybreak Comes

Women's Values and the Future

By: Annie Cheatham,Mary Clare Powell

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This Way Daybreak Comes

Women's Values and the Future

By: Annie Cheatham,Mary Clare Powell

The authors, a futurist and an artist, spent the first four years of this decade traveling across the United States and interviewing women, whom they see as creating a new vision of the future by the way they live their lives in the present. This book is a distillation of what they found: women forming new kinds of families; creating new forms of art; plotting new political models; restoring the natural balances and rhythms of the planet; redefining roles, relationships and responsibilities. Their sketches, though brief, provide ample evidence of the positive effects of the feminist movement and its possibilities for creative change. ISBN 0-86571-069-4 (pbk.): $12.95.

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Philadelphia : New Society Publishers

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0865710694

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9780865710696

The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Dictionary

By: Tom Pulliam,Clare Grundman

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The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Dictionary

By: Tom Pulliam,Clare Grundman

You will discover in this Third Edition many alternate and uncommon synonyms of finding words. You will also discover many synonyms consisting of phrases of two or more words unaccompanied by qualifying explanations, such as "two words". There are other new additions to this volume. In short, all these additions confirm that this edition remains the most comprehensive and current puzzle dictionary available.

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Random House Puzzles & Games

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0812911318

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Book's by Clare Walker Leslie

Drawn to Nature

Drawn to Nature

Keeping a Nature Journal, 3rd Edition

Keeping a Nature Journal, 3rd Edition

The Curious Nature Guide

The Curious Nature Guide

The Nature Connection

The Nature Connection

Drawn to Nature

Drawn to Nature

The Ancient Celtic Festivals

The Ancient Celtic Festivals

Creating a Bird-Watcher's Journal

Creating a Bird-Watcher's Journal

The Curious Nature Guide

The Curious Nature Guide

How to Look at a Bird

How to Look at a Bird

Keeping a Nature Journal, 3rd Edition

Keeping a Nature Journal, 3rd Edition

Metaphysical Animals

Metaphysical Animals

The Nature Connection

The Nature Connection

Creating a Birdwatcher's Journal

Creating a Birdwatcher's Journal

This Way Daybreak Comes

This Way Daybreak Comes

The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Dictionary

The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Dictionary

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