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Gratitude: 10 Nature-Related Things I’m Thankful For

Gratitude: 10 Nature-Related Things I’m Thankful For

2020 has been hard for everyone. From canceled activities to isolation from friends and family, to record setting hurricane and fire seasons across the country. Despite all of this year’s COVID-, environmental- and political-craziness, there are still many things I am thankful for. In addition to the Thanksgiving toad I came across on my rainy walk this morning (see cover photo above), below are just ten of the nature-related things I’m grateful for this year.  1. Abundant and beautiful local…

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Book Review: Gathering Moss

Book Review: Gathering Moss

This book was a beautiful blend of detailed botanical science and a deeper connection with nature. In Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, Robin Wall Kimmerer takes readers on a journey into a part of our landscape that is so frequently overlooked and ignored due to its small size, and she inspires a new respect and admiration for the small wonders of the world. Personally, I’ve always been rather enamored with mosses: how vibrantly green they shine…

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Book Review: Coyote America

Book Review: Coyote America

This book was enlightening, but not at all in the ways I expected it to be. I expected a book about coyotes, what they eat, what habitats they prefer, how they raise their young, and other ecological information. I expected a book about coyotes in my America (that is, in Massachusetts, where as far as I can remember coyotes have always existed). Instead I learned just how recently coyotes have expanded into the east coast states (only in the last…

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Book Review: The Hidden Life of Trees

Book Review: The Hidden Life of Trees

I was given this book, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben, as a gift from my aunt who over the years has introduced me to many of my favorite books. This one was no exception. This fascinating work turned out to be an unlikely world-wide best seller. For one thing, it was originally written in German, a language in which few people outside of Germany are…

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