Tag: nature
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BR323) “Ever Green” Book Review
Ever Green by John Reid and Thomas Lovejoy. 3/5 rating. 255 pages. Book #39 of 2023. Read September 8, 2023. This book is all about the 5 megaforests on our Earth: why they are important and what can be done to keep them standing. In the past, much of the Earth was covered in forest.…
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BR320) “Last Child in the Woods” Book Review
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv. 3/5 rating. 316 pages. Book #36 of 2023. Read August 23, 2023. Richard talks about our need to get kids back into nature. This book helped launch the recent movement towards more nature, but it was less interesting or impactful than…
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BR259) “The Overstory” Book Review
The Overstory by Richard Powers. 5/5 rating. 502 pages. Book #26 of 2022. Read June 7, 2022. This is an incredible novel about the intersecting stories of a small group of people and their discovery of awe for trees. The main characters include everything from a computer scientist, to a professional of trees (dendrologist), to…
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BR176) “A Sand County Almanac” Book Review
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold. 4/5 rating. 212 pages. Book #12 of 2021. Read February 3, 2021. This is an absolute classic in the conservationist and environmental movement. Aldo is unlike nearly any other writer that I have read. Written in 1949, this book combines a reverence and love for nature and realization…
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BR153) “The Nature Fix” Book Review
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams. 3/5 rating. 258 pages. Book #78 of 2020. Read October 29, 2020. This book is a (nature) walk through all of the relevant tales and data about the benefits that nature has on us as humans. As we have become…
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BR152) “The One-Straw Revolution” Book Review
The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka. 2/5 rating. 184 pages. Book #77 of 2020. Read October 22, 2020. This was a huge letdown of a book since I am 110% on board with Fukuoka’s style of “do-nothing” farming. For most of his life, Fukuoka manned a farm where he managed to grow comparable amounts of…
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BR150) “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf” Book Review
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf by John Muir. 3/5 rating. 80 pages. Book #75 of 2020. Read October 20, 2020. This is Muir’s journal kept during his (almost all walking) trip from Indiana to the Gulf of Mexico, then his trip to Cuba and eventually California. This book perfectly sums up Muir’s passions and…
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BR133) “Second Nature” Book Review
Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education by Michael Pollan. 4/5 rating. 320 pages. Book #57 of 2020. Read August 14, 2020. This is one of Michael’s early books all about the philosophical and physical aspects of gardening. I always enjoy Michael’s writing. He has a lovely flow and tends towards longer, in-depth (maybe run on?) sentences…
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BR116) “Harvest for Hope” Book Review
Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating by Jane Goodall. 3/5 rating. 286 pages. Book #41 of 2020. Read June 24, 2020. This book discusses the importance of what we eat and voting with our dollars to take back “farming” from the companies who factory farm or are unsustainable. Jane has so many great…
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BR65) The End of Nature Book Review
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben. 2/5 rating. Book #140 of 2019. Read December 9, 2019. This book is a classic about global warming. As such, I wanted soooo bad to like it, but just couldn’t get into it. This book has some interesting ideas and was certainly powerful as one of the first…