Download or read book Butterflies on a Sea Wind written by Anne Rudloe and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir by a marine biologist “sings the life of a beginning Zen practitioner. . . . [with] a haunting, beautiful appreciation of the natural world.”(Publishers Weekly) Anne Rudloe was attracted to Zen as a college student. But it seemed premature for a twenty-one-year-old to focus on the difficulties of life when she'd hardly begun to live. Twenty-five years later, she was ready to explore the spiritual discipline that originated in Asian monasteries more than a millennium ago. Rudloe's quest is compellingly chronicled in Butterflies on a Sea Wind, which combines the rigor of formal monastic Zen practice with the challenges of integrating Zen concepts into modern daily life. Her narrative describes both the physical and mental demands of Zen retreats and how she applied what she learned there to her work as a marine biologist in Florida, as well as to the rigors of raising children and caring for an elderly grandmother. In words that intimately draw in her readers, she describes how Zen helps us look inward and use the wisdom we find there to reach out to others. During the 1990s, the number of organized Buddhist centers in this country grew more than 40 percent, from 429 to 1,062. While there are many books about Zen on the market today, few give a clear picture of what it's like to actually sit down and begin a meditation practice and then apply it to a daily life. Likewise, few books discuss the types of issues most people face every day: raising a family and earning a living. Butterflies on a Sea Wind does all this and more.
Download or read book Bicycling with Butterflies written by Sara Dykman and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What a wonderful idea for an adventure! Absolutely inspired, timely, and important.” —Alistair Humphreys, National Geographic Adventurer of the Year and author of The Doorstep Mile and Around the World by Bike Outdoor educator and field researcher Sara Dykman made history when she became the first person to bicycle alongside monarch butterflies on their storied annual migration—a round-trip adventure that included three countries and more than 10,000 miles. Equally remarkable, she did it solo, on a bike cobbled together from used parts. Her panniers were recycled buckets. In Bicycling with Butterflies, Dykman recounts her incredible journey and the dramatic ups and downs of the nearly nine-month odyssey. We’re beside her as she navigates unmapped roads in foreign countries, checks roadside milkweed for monarch eggs, and shares her passion with eager schoolchildren, skeptical bar patrons, and unimpressed border officials. We also meet some of the ardent monarch stewards who supported her efforts, from citizen scientists and researchers to farmers and high-rise city dwellers. With both humor and humility, Dykman offers a compelling story, confirming the urgency of saving the threatened monarch migration—and the other threatened systems of nature that affect the survival of us all.
Download or read book Butterflies of the Sea written by Stanley L. Swartz and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bird and Butterfly Mysteries written by Bernard Acworth and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of his challenge to the theory of evolution, the outspoken creationist presents alternative theories of bird flight and migration. In 1932, Bernard Acworth established the Evolution Protest Movement (now called the Creation Science Movement) for the purpose of criticizing evolutionary theory in scientific terms. A freelance journalist and amateur ornithologist, he took aim at the accepted science of ornithology with a keenly skeptical eye. Here, Acworth addresses topics including bird and butterfly migration, and the peculiarities of the cuckoo. In Bird and Butterfly Mysteries, Acworth presents a close examination of the science concerning the flight of winged animals. Through this analysis, he exposes errors that call into question many of the major conclusions reached by professional ornithologists. While the two Laws of Currents Acworth proposes in this volume have since appeared in other works on ornithology, he has never received due credit for their discovery.
Download or read book Field Guide to Butterflies of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley Regions written by Dr. Arthur Shapiro and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The California Tortoiseshell, West Coast Lady, Red Admiral, and Golden Oak Hairstreak are just a few of the many butterfly species found in the floristically rich San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley regions. This guide, written for both beginning and experienced butterfly watchers by one of the nation’s best-known professional lepidopterists, provides thorough, up-to-date information on all of the butterfly species found in this diverse and accessible region. Written in lively prose, it discusses the natural history and conservation status for these butterflies and at the same time provides an integrated view of butterfly biology based on studies conducted in northern California and around the world. Compact enough for use in the field, the guide also includes tips on butterfly watching, photography, gardening, and more. * Discusses and identifies more than 130 species * Species accounts include information on identifying butterflies through behavior, markings, and host plants * Beautiful full-color plates illustrate top and bottom views of wings for easier identification * Includes a species checklist and a glossary
Download or read book The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada written by Samuel Hubbard Scudder and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Butterflies of the Sea written by Stanley L. Swartz and published by . This book was released on 2004-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada Introduction Nymphalidae written by Samuel Hubbard Scudder and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London written by Entomological Society of London (1833-1933) and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pearly woman Prose in English written by Natalia Patratskaya and published by Litres. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bella grabbed her head in her hands, and all the paintings have already been sold! I decided for the remaining time to write at least one picture with a local landscape. And then the snow fell. I had to draw a winter forest and a chaffinch.
Download or read book Mistress of the Storm written by M. L. Welsh and published by David Fickling Books. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verity Gallant is a lonely little girl who doesn't quite fit in. But when a mysterious stranger hands her an ancient book, everything changes. Suddenly it's up to her to solve the riddle of an ancient pledge and protect her family from the evil Mistress of the Storm. What hope does she have against a witch so powerful she can control the wind and create storms at will? Luckily, Verity does not have to face her enemy alone. As events begin to spiral out of control, she finds two loyal and steadfast friends to stand by her side. The Storm is coming. And it will change Verity's life forever.
Download or read book Butterfly Miracles and Mysteries written by Bernard Acworth and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This modest book on butterflies owes its inspiration to happy memoriesrevived by a broadcast by Mr. compton Mackenzie and Mr. Moray Mclaren on on December 29th, the title of which was butterflies and brown tront. In both of these creatures the author has taken a profound interestsince he was five yares old. Though the first collection made by him in his own childhood, and the second when his younger children were growing up, have long since mouldered intro dust, the fascination of watching and observig butterflies, and of catching trour, has never left him. This book is that of a laymam, but the majority of the more obscure facts which it contains are derived from the works of high authorities or from the works of hing authorities.
Download or read book Chatterbox written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All the Year Round written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hope Reports written by University of Oxford. Hope Dept. of Zoology and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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