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"With our hearts and minds focused on the stewardship of the only planet we have, the best way to engage in a hopeful future is to plant oaks! Let this book be your inspiration and guide." -The American Gardener
With Bringing Nature Home, Doug Tallamy changed the conversation about gardening in America. His second book, the New York Times bestseller Nature's Best Hope, urged homeowners to take conservation into their own hands. Now, he turns...
5) Mountains
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Series
Publisher
Rourke Enterprises
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Examines the mountainous community as an ecological niche and describes the plant and animal life supported there.
8) The rock
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Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Over the years a rock provides homes, shelter, food, and a place to sit for visiting animals and people.
10) The rock pool
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Series
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Distributed by Crown
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Relates how plants and creatures co-exist in a rockpool and their struggle for survival when a man-made catastrophe strikes.
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English
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"Living at the border between life and non-life, fungi use diverse cocktails of potent enzymes and acids to disassemble some of the most stubborn substances on the planet, turning rock into soil and wood into compost, allowing plants to grow. Fungi not only help create soil, they send out networks of tubes that enmesh roots and link plants together in the "Wood Wide Web." Fungi also drive many long-standing human fascinations: from yeasts that cause...
12) You are stardust
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Publisher
Owlkids Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Introduces readers to the extensive and surprising ways in which they are connected to the natural world around them.
14) Apple tree
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
Describes the many ways an apple tree interacts with insects, birds, and other animals during a full year of its development.
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"Jorie Graham's status as a canonic poet – of the academic breed, with a flair for blending the intellectual and the sensual – is virtually guaranteed." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Sea Change is among Graham's most powerful books." - Time Out New York
"Here, the interconnectedness of all life isn't just a spiritual commonplace, it is grounds for a call to action, and one that Graham – a poet of rare responsiveness to the natural world and a...
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