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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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We can continue pushing our earth out of balance, with greenhouse gases accelerating each year, or we can regain balance by acknowledging that if we harm one species, one forest, one lake, this ripples through the entire complex web. Mistreatment of one species is mistreatment of all.
The rest of the planet has been waiting patiently for us to figure that out. Making this transformation requires that humans recommect with nature -- the forests, the prairie, the oceans -- instead of treating eve
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― Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
― Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
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But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference. We were out to seek, to discover, to chase, to learn, to find as many different kinds of birds as possible — and, in friendly competition, to try to find more of them than the next birder. We became a community of birders, with the complications that human societies always have; and although it was the birds that had brought us together, our story became a human story after all.
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― Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
― Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
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