Wildflowers Around the Year

Wildflowers Around the Year
Author:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2001
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780395858141

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Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast
Author: Peter Raven
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2020
Genre:
ISBN: 9781733104401

"Beauty and the Beast: California Wildflowers and Climate Change" is a 12 x 12'' beautifully illustrated and designed 264 page coffee table book created by conservation photographers Rob Badger and Nita Winter.Illustrations: 190 stunning images of California's diverse wildflowers and their habitats, from high mountain passes in the Sierra Nevada mountains to below sea level in Death Valley National Park.Essays: Sixteen talented and diverse authors and scientists, most of whom are women, wrote 18 storytelling style essays (1,200 to 1,800 words) about nature, conservation, climate change or taking action. The two younger authors write about hope and action, and what people can do to help create positive change. The book has three sections: The Gift of Beauty, The Human Connection and Ensuring the Future.Because people are constantly hearing about all the negative things going on in the world, Nita and Rob believed there was a need for a different, softer approach to grab people's attention and center it on the climate-change story, and conservation and population issues. They engage their audiences by first inviting them to experience the splendor of the natural world through a universal symbol of beauty, the wildflower, and then educate and inspire them to take some of the simple actions they provide to create positive change and a healthier planet. Their goal is to spread conservation and climate change ideas far beyond native plant and nature lovers, and to plant the seeds to foster action."Beauty and the Beast" is a 27 year photographic journey into the public lands of California. Lands we all own, lands under constant threat of development or resource extraction, impacts of global warming, sea level rise and wildfires. This book is as much a treasure as the flowers and creatures which are featured within its pages. Nita and Rob extend a hand to you to come in and take a long, slow look around and see what they have seen, experienced and have learned. Book includes two comprehensive indexes and a glossary.Co-published by WinterBadger Press and the California Native Plant Society

How to Be a Wildflower

How to Be a Wildflower
Author: Katie Daisy
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2016-02-16
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1452152659

A field guide to finding calm, creativity, and self-discovery through encounters with nature. A fresh perspective, an outdoor exploration, a new adventure about to begin—How to Be A Wildflower is a book for celebrating these and other wide-open occasions. Encouraging self-discovery through encounters with nature, beloved artist Katie Daisy brings her beautiful paintings and lettering to this collection of things to do and make, quotes, meditations, natural history, and more. Find wonder and inspiration in these peaceful pages, live life to the fullest, and discover the wild and free spirit within. “For pure whimsy, you just can’t beat How to Be a Wildflower: A Field Guide by Katie Daisy. The Bend, Oregon, artist brings her beautiful paintings and lettering to this delightful book, a collection of nature-inspired quotations, meditations, lore, and even a recipe for fresh strawberry-rhubarb pie.” —Traditional Home

Wild Your Garden

Wild Your Garden
Author: Jim and Joel Ashton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020-04-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9780241435816

"It's up to every single one of us to do our bit for wildlife, however small our gardens, and The Butterfly Brothers know just how that can be achieved." Alan Titchmarsh Join the rewilding movement and share your outdoor space with nature. We all have the potential to make the world a little greener. Wild Your Garden, written by Jim and Joel Ashton (aka "The Butterfly Brothers"), shows you how to create a garden that can help boost local biodiversity. Transform a paved-over yard into a lush oasis, create refuges to welcome and support native species, or turn a high-maintenance lawn into a nectar-rich mini-meadow to attract bees and butterflies. You don't need specialist knowledge or acres of land. If you have any outdoor space, you can make a difference to local wildlife, and reduce your carbon footprint, too. "Wildlife gardening is one of the most important things you can do as an individual for increasing biodiversity and mitigating the effects of climate change. From digging a pond to planting a native hedge, the Butterfly Brothers can help you every step of the way." Kate Bradbury

Thoreau's Wildflowers

Thoreau's Wildflowers
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0300214774

The first collection of Thoreau's writings on the flowering plants of Concord, with more than 200 drawings by renowned artist Barry Moser Some of Henry David Thoreau's most beautiful nature writing was inspired by the flowering trees and plants of Concord. An inveterate year-round rambler and journal keeper, he faithfully recorded, dated, and described his sightings of the floating water lily, the elusive wild azalea, and the late autumn foliage of the scarlet oak. This inviting selection of Thoreau's best flower writings is arranged by day of the year and accompanied by Thoreau's philosophical speculations and his observations of the weather and of other plants and animals. They illuminate the author's spirituality, his belief in nature's correspondence with the human soul, and his sense that anticipation--of spring, of flowers yet to bloom--renews our connection with the earth and with immortality. Thoreau's Wildflowers features more than 200 of the black-and-white drawings originally created by Barry Moser for his first illustrated book, Flowering Plants of Massachusetts. This volume also presents "Thoreau as Botanist," an essay by Ray Angelo, the leading authority on the flowering plants of Concord.

Taming Wildflowers

Taming Wildflowers
Author: Miriam Goldberger
Publisher: St. Lynn's Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780985562267

Easily cultivate wildflowers in your own garden ... and have a year-after-year supply of gorgeous flowers at your fingertips. Wildflower farmer and floral designer Miriam Goldberger is here to show you how.--

Wildflowers from Winter

Wildflowers from Winter
Author: Katie Ganshert
Publisher: WaterBrook
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2012-05-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307730395

Like the winter, grief has a season. Life returns with the spring. A young architect at a prestigious Chicago firm, Bethany Quinn has built the life she dreamed of during her teen years in a trailer park. An unexpected interruption from her estranged mother reveals that tragedy has struck in her hometown and a reluctant Bethany is called back to rural Iowa. Determined to pay her respects to her past while avoiding any emotional entanglements, she vows not to stay long. But the unexpected inheritance of five hundred acres of farmland and a startling turn of events in Chicago forces Bethany to come up with a new plan. Handsome farmhand Evan Price has taken care of the Quinn farm for years. When Bethany is left the land, Evan must fight her decisions to realize his dreams. But even as he disagrees with Bethany’s vision, Evan feels drawn to her and the pain she keeps so carefully locked away. For Bethany, making peace with her past and the God of her childhood doesn’t seem like the path to freedom. Is letting go the only way to new life, love and a peace that she’s not even sure exists?

Still Growing Wildflowers

Still Growing Wildflowers
Author: Where She Grows
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2021-07-28
Genre:
ISBN:

"Still Growing Wildflowers" uses poetry to give voice to past trauma and a path to healing."Beautifully Heartbreaking" This book made my whole day stop. To do list set aside, glass of wine poured, just reading, absorbing, feeling. Alisha's writing is stunning. The raw emotion that she so lovingly pours onto the page is beautifully heartbreaking and terrifyingly relatable. As her poetry meanders through a cycle of hurting and healing, it will bring laughter and tears.Set aside a chunk of time because this is a book you want to pay attention to and digest. -Lacey "Raw, beautiful poetry" This book is lovely, heart wrenching and vulnerable. Highly recommend to have on your shelf as a piece of art. Alisha truly has a way with words and touches your soul. xx -Kea Arakaki "The poems validated my own experiences" I read this book in one day! So beautifully written. Simple and so eloquently done. I related to much of the poetry and it brought tears to my eyes. The poems validated my own experiences. She lets us be privy to a window in time of emotional and verbal abuse that often happens behind closed doors. -Rebecca Bailey "Inspiring and real" I read the whole thing in a day and have read it so many times since then. Definitely a must read for anyone who loves an emotional, authentic poem. -Rian Trigger warning for emotional and sexual abuse as labeled by readers. Second Edition. Original print: https: //amzn.to/3l7k7xk

We, the Wildflowers

We, the Wildflowers
Author: L. B. Simmons
Publisher: Spencer Hill Contemporary
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9781633921115

Four unruly teens living together in a home for troubled youth find connection and strength, like that of wildflowers, as they face their harrowing pasts and new tragedies.