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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780820348872
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 107

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"Exhibition Schedule, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia February 28 to May 22, 2016."

Author: Claire Cock-Starkey
Publisher:
ISBN: 0711260710
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Delves into nature folklore from around the world in six topical categories, featuring for each category one traditional tale and extensive ancient lore about that topic.

Author: Mark Tercek
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN: 0465031811
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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The CEO of the Nature Conservancy and the author of The Future of the Wild demonstrate how profitable business can coexist with environmentalism, explaining the economic importance of responsible natural resource stewardship while sharing guidelines for corporate decision-making that is both economically and environmentally sound.

Author: Lamar Dodd
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Author: Philip Juras
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578864587
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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The fifty-four paintings in this volume celebrate the natural beauty of the rare tallgrass prairie environments of Illinois and the remarkable legacy of conservation that sustains them. Artist and author Philip Juras's evocative canvases are based on extensive research, travel, and time in the field with prairie conservation experts. As a result, his luminous paintings, and his descriptions of them, are rich in ecological and historical detail. An accompanying essay by acclaimed conservationist Stephen Packard tells the story of how the tallgrass prairie ecosystem was, and is, being saved from extinction in Illinois by a series of remarkable individuals and initiatives-efforts that have inspired conservation practices well beyond the state's borders.Picturing the Prairie invites us to get to know these restored landscapes, both within these pages and in the corresponding 2021 exhibition at the Chicago Botanic Garden. In them we can experience the magnificence of this archetypal American grassland, both in its present nature, and as it was in the past.

Author: Dee Dee Chainey
Publisher: Batsford Books
ISBN: 1849947406
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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An entertaining and enthralling collection of myths, tales and traditions surrounding our trees, woodlands and forests from around the world. From the dark, gnarled woodlands of the north, to the humid jungles of the southern lands, trees have captured humanity's imagination for millennia. Filled with primal gods and goddesses, dryads and the fairy tales of old, the forests still beckon to us, offering sanctuary, mystery and more than a little mischievous trickery. From insatiable cannibalistic children hewn from logs, to lumberjack lore, and the spine-chilling legend of Bloody Mary, there is much to be found between the branches. Come into the trees; witches, seductive spirits and big, bad wolves await you. With this book, Folklore Thursday aim to encourage a sense of belonging across all cultures by showing how much we all have in common.

Author: William Bartram
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486138666
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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First inexpensive, illustrated edition of early classic on American geography, plants, Indians, wildlife, early settlers. Influenced Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Chateaubriand. "A book of extraordinary beauty." — The New York Times. 13 illustrations.

Author: Jane Worrel
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 178678582X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Aimed at parents, teachers and Forest School leaders, this new book from Jane Worroll & Peter Houghton is packed full of fantastic new Forest School activities. It has a special focus on the elements and on making children feel connected to the natural world through imagination and storytelling. The ultimate antidote to screen time – outdoor play with your kids! Whether you are a parent, a teacher, a Forest School leader or anyone else looking after children, this invaluable guide to nature-based play is full of ideas to get kids outdoors, learning about and connecting with nature, developing new skills and having fun. These new Forest School crafts, games and survival activities are all themed around the elements of earth, air, fire and water, with an underlying message of sustainability and wonder at the amazing web of life. For earth, make a mud slide, try Bogolan mud painting on cloth, or hurl mud missiles at a moving target. For air, make a bullroarer or a whistle, build a kite and fly it, or predict the weather by reading the clouds. For fire, dig a Dakota fire pit, make a bug-repellent torch or learn how to navigate using a shadow stick. For water, mix natural dyes, build and test a rainproof den, or drink foraged birch twig tea from a crafted log cup. There are also four magical stories to tell the children – one for each of the elements –guaranteed to spark their imagination.

Author: Philip Juras
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780933075146
Category : Ecology in art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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These stunning reproductions of more than sixty oil paintings by landscape artist Philip Juras offer a glimpse of the pre-European settlement southern wilderness as late eighteenth-century naturalist William Bartram would have experienced it during his famed travels through the region. Juras spent years researching Bartram and revisiting important sites the naturalist wrote about in his celebrated Travels. The paintings combine direct observation with historical, scientific, and natural history research to depict, and in some cases reimagine, landscapes as they appeared in the 1770s. Juras's work explores many of the important and imperiled ecosystems that remain in the South today. These little-known, remnant natural communities are further illuminated by essays placing them in the context of Bartram's legacy and the American landscape movement. Here is a rare glimpse of the southern frontier before it was irrevocably altered by European settlement.

Author: Jan Brett
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780399254017
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Collects four winter tales including the story of a runaway gingerbread baby, a child's lost mitten, and three polar bears visited by a young girl.