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Nature Journaling: Learning to Observe and Connect With the World Around You
No one could describe NATURE JOURNAL as a blank book. Clare Walker Leslie has transformed what could have been an ordinary diary into something truly unique. The text and illustrations offer just the right amount of inspiration and guidance to help the journal-keeper begin and succeed at making this book his or her own. First Clare explains to the budding journal-keeper how to get started and suggests some possible formats to follow. She even includes a few sample pages from her own journal as inspiration.
Then come the journal pages themselves. The left-hand page has ghosted-back lines for those who prefer a sense of structure. The right-hand pages are left blank for sketching or writing. Short, inspir ational quotes and exercises to help guide the journaling process are scattered among the pages.
At the back of the journal is Clare's mini-field guide, packed with essential information on how to recognize (and draw!) basic families of birds, insects, and trees, thus sparing the journal-keeper the trouble of lugging multiple field guides into the wild. An elastic band keeps paper from flapping while you're writing, holds specimens, and acts as a bookmark. Drop it in the mud. Get trail mix stuck between the pages. This journal can take it! Printed on recycled, acid-free paper with a lay-flat binding.
Then come the journal pages themselves. The left-hand page has ghosted-back lines for those who prefer a sense of structure. The right-hand pages are left blank for sketching or writing. Short, inspir ational quotes and exercises to help guide the journaling process are scattered among the pages.
At the back of the journal is Clare's mini-field guide, packed with essential information on how to recognize (and draw!) basic families of birds, insects, and trees, thus sparing the journal-keeper the trouble of lugging multiple field guides into the wild. An elastic band keeps paper from flapping while you're writing, holds specimens, and acts as a bookmark. Drop it in the mud. Get trail mix stuck between the pages. This journal can take it! Printed on recycled, acid-free paper with a lay-flat binding.
- GenresArtNonfictionNature
192 pages, Hardcover
First published January 9, 1998
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About the author
Charles E. Roth
18 books Alternative Names
Roth, Charles E. (Charles Edmund), 1934-
Roth, Chuck, 1934-
Roth, Charles E. (Charles Edmund), 1934-
Roth, Chuck, 1934-
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May 16, 2021
This is beautiful and inspiring. Her simple, natural style of drawing will be instructive to adults and older children. Nice ideas on different kinds of nature journals to keep: it doesn’t all have to be all perfect and scientific!
Ideas…
-A view from a window four times a year.
-draw the same leaf with various mediums such as blue ball point pen, fine pen, technical pencil, 2B pencil, marker, pastel.
-Do a family travel nature journal where everyone contributes. It helps recall memories. Add funny things that happened.
-I like her ideas on blind contour drawing.
-observation lists.
-measuring weathering, habitats, seasons.
-charts, graphs, mapmaking.
-Watch the sky for 20 minutes, drawing and making notes, then write a poem.
Ideas…
-A view from a window four times a year.
-draw the same leaf with various mediums such as blue ball point pen, fine pen, technical pencil, 2B pencil, marker, pastel.
-Do a family travel nature journal where everyone contributes. It helps recall memories. Add funny things that happened.
-I like her ideas on blind contour drawing.
-observation lists.
-measuring weathering, habitats, seasons.
-charts, graphs, mapmaking.
-Watch the sky for 20 minutes, drawing and making notes, then write a poem.
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January 20, 2025Too much like a formal textbook for me
April 2, 2008
published 1998.
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