
“Teach us delight in simple things.” — Rudyard Kipling — The Naturalist Intelligence as identified by Harvard educator, Howard Gardner, is pivotal to children’s environmental learning. Learn more at “Creative learning – how to build a child’s naturalist intelligence” at https://www.examiner.com/article/creative-learning-how-to-build-a-child-s-naturalist-intelligence
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From the notebooks of the naturalist Asa Gray, whose writings I scoured for inspiration on “The Signature of All Things.”
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Naturalist’s study. Darwin’s to be exact.
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How I imagine Alma’s shelves…
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“These fantastic color plates of marine mollusks are from the 1833 scientific atlas, “Voyage De La Corvettte L’Astrolabe.” The five volume atlas documents the scientific expedition of French naval officer and naturalist Jules Dumont d’Urville, who circumnavigated the globe aboard the French exploration ship Astrolabe between 1826 and 1829.”
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University of Salamanca Library
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Nova Scotia ~ Yes! Should have one in every town. So efficient!
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Joris Hoefnagel. Sour Orange, Terrestial Mollusk and Larkspur, 1596. These are the sorts of exquisite images that set me to write this novel…
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A page from Naturalist John Muir’s notebook during his travels in Alaska in 1879.
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[And when thou art weary, I’ll find thee a bed of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head…” -John Keats]
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