From an Acorn to an Oak
Author | : Loren A. Yadon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 1978-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780912315461 |
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Author | : Loren A. Yadon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 1978-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780912315461 |
Author | : William Bryant Logan |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2006-06-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393327787 |
Explores the role that the oak tree has played throughout history and in shaping the modern world.
Author | : J. Steven Spires |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2022-09-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781455627172 |
Life is good for an old Southern oak tree and the family who lives next to it. The tree enjoys watching the children play around it. The family enjoys the shade it provides. Everything seems so perfect. Then, one day, a bad storm heads their way. The oak tree, which has experienced many storms, senses great danger. Its immediate concern is for the family it loves. What will become of the tree? Or the family? Will they see each other again?
Author | : Peter Fiennes |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2017-09-07 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1786071673 |
A Guardian Best Nature Book of the Year The magic and mystery of the woods are embedded in culture, from ancient folklore to modern literature. They offer us refuge: a place to play, a place to think. They are the generous providers of timber and energy. They let us dream of other ways of living. Yet we now face a future where taking a walk in the woods is consigned to the tales we tell our children. Immersing himself in the beauty of woodland Britain, Peter Fiennes explores our long relationship with the woods and the sad and violent story of how so many have been lost. Just as we need them, our woods need us too. But who, if anyone, is looking out for them?
Author | : James Canton |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2021-02-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0063037971 |
"A profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature, as one man seeks solace beneath the bows of an ancient oak tree."—Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees "James Canton knows so much, writes so well and understands so deeply about the true forest magic and the important place these trees have in it. Knowledge and joy."— Sara Maitland, author of How to Be Alone Joining the ranks of The Hidden Life of Trees and H is for Hawk, an evocative memoir and ode to one of the most majestic living things on earth—the oak tree—probing the mysteries of nature and the healing role it plays in our lives. Thrown into turmoil by the end of his long-term relationship, Professor James Canton spent two years meditating [PA1]beneath the welcoming shelter of the massive 800-year-old Honywood Oak tree in North Essex, England. While considering the direction of his own life, he began to contemplate the existence of this colossus tree. Standing in England for centuries, the oak would have been a sapling when the Magna Carta was signed in 1215. In this beautiful, transportive book, Canton tells the story of this tree in its ecological, spiritual, literary, and historical contexts, using it as a prism to see his own life and human history. The Oak Papers is a reflection on change and transformation, and the role nature has played in sustaining and redeeming us. Canton examines our long-standing dependency on the oak, and how that has developed and morphed into myth and legend. We no longer need these sturdy trees to build our houses and boats, to fuel our fires, or to grind their acorns into flour in times of famine. What purpose, then, do they serve in our world today? Are these miracles of nature no longer necessary to our lives? What can they offer us? Taking inspiration from the literary world—Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, Katherine Basford’s Green Man, Thomas Hardy, William Shakespeare, and others—Canton ponders the wondrous magic of nature and the threats its faces, from human development to climate change, implores us to act as responsible stewards to conserve what is precious, and reminds us of the lessons we can learn from the world around us, if only we slow down enough to listen.
Author | : Lynda Mapes |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2017-04-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1632862530 |
An intimate look at one majestic hundred-year-old oak tree through four seasons--and the reality of global climate change it reveals. In the life of this one grand oak, we can see for ourselves the results of one hundred years of rapid environmental change. It's leafing out earlier, and dropping its leaves later as the climate warms. Even the inner workings of individual leaves have changed to accommodate more CO2 in our atmosphere. Climate science can seem dense, remote, and abstract. But through the lens of this one tree, it becomes immediate and intimate. In Witness Tree, environmental reporter Lynda V. Mapes takes us through her year living with one red oak at the Harvard Forest. We learn about carbon cycles and leaf physiology, but also experience the seasons as people have for centuries, watching for each new bud, and listening for each new bird and frog call in spring. We savor the cadence of falling autumn leaves, and glory of snow and starry winter nights. Lynda takes us along as she climbs high into the oak's swaying boughs, and scientists core deep into the oak's heartwood, dig into its roots and probe the teeming life of the soil. She brings us eye-level with garter snakes and newts, and alongside the squirrels and jays devouring the oak's acorns. Season by season she reveals the secrets of trees, how they work, and sustain a vast community of lives, including our own. The oak is a living timeline and witness to climate change. While stark in its implications, Witness Tree is a beautiful and lyrical read, rich in detail, sweeps of weather, history, people, and animals. It is a story rooted in hope, beauty, wonder, and the possibility of renewal in people's connection to nature.
Author | : Kara Gebhart Uhl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2022-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781954697065 |
Author | : Gerda Muller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-09-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781782506027 |
When Anna and Benjamin visit their cousin Robin in the countryside he introduces them to the 300-year-old oak tree growing in the forest. As the seasons change, so does the great oak. The curious children build a den beside the tree when the leaves fall, learn to ski in the snowy forest, and search for animals in the spring sunshine. And one night, the old oak tree helps Benjamin when he discoveres something surprising...
Author | : Kate Seredy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 9781930900813 |
Originally published: New York: Viking Press, 1948.
Author | : Kathryn Harrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Christian saints |
ISBN | : 9780670032099 |
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, largely unknown when she died in a Carmelite convent at the age of twenty-four, became-through her posthumously published autobiography-one of the world's most influential religious figures. In Saint Thérèse of Lisieux Kathryn Harrison reveals the hopes and fears of the young girl behind the religious icon. Saint Thérèse of Lisieux shows us the pampered daughter of successful and deeply religious tradespeople who-through a personal appeal to the pope-entered a convent at the early age of fifteen. There, Thérèse embraced sacrifice and self-renunciation in a single-minded pursuit of the "nothingness" she felt would bring her closer to God. With feeling, Harrison shows us the sensitive four-year-old whose mother's death haunted her forever and contributed to the ascetic spirituality that strengthened her to embrace even the deadly throes of tuberculosis. Tellingly placed in the context of late-nineteenth-century French social and religious practices, this is a powerful story of a life lived with enormous passion and a searing, triumphant voyage of the spirit.