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Natural History
Natural history is the research and study of organisms including plants or animals in their environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.
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With my new habit of carrying binoculars everywhere, I feel imbued with a readiness to see, an attitude that my life itself is a kind of field trip. The urban naturalist has the terrific luxury of stepping out her door and into "the field," without long rides or carpools, or putting money in for gas and Dairy Queen. When does the field trip being? Whenever we start paying attention.
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― Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness
― Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness
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In the 1940s and 1950s, the study of natural history--an intimate science predicated on the time-consuming collection and naming of life-forms--gave way to microbiology, theoretical and commercial. Much the same thing happened to the conservation movement, which shifted from local preservationists with soil on their shoes to environmental lawyers in Washington, D.C.
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― Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
― Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
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Read for the Earth with Wild Type Press! This reading group was started as an Artists for the Ea…more
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This is a group dedicated to authors of books dealing with the natural world, science, environme…more
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