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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vii, 432 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely date the oldest living things on earth. The new science of tree time prompted travelers to visit ancient specimens and conservationists to protect sacred groves. Exploitation accompanied sanctification, as old-growth forests succumbed...
9) My leaf book
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Description
"A young girl visits an arboretum in the autumn to collect fallen leaves. She identifies various trees by the shapes of their leaves and pastes her collection into her own leaf book"--
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Formats
Description
Green in the garden is at once the most common color of foliage and the rarest color found in flowers. Whether you're a home gardener looking for a jolt of freshness or a floral designer seeking inspiration, this charming collection of unexpected plants provides a palette of flowering greens for year-round display.
Combining Marie O'Hara's sumptuous photography and Alison Hoblyn's evocative text, Green Flowers explores the history, botany,
...Author
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Description
"The story of a tree is a story of community, communication, and cooperation. Although trees may seem like silent, independent organisms, they form a network buzzing with life: they talk, share food, raise their young, and offer protection. Trees thrive on diversity, learn from their ancestors, and give back to their communities. Trees not only sustain life on our planet--they can also teach us important lessons about patience, survival, and teamwork....
Author
Pub. Date
2009, c2007
Physical Desc
xii, 390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Accompanying famed British nature writer Deakin through the woods of Britain, Europe, Kazakhstan, and Australia in search of what lies behind man's profound and enduring connection with trees. Deakin lives in forest shacks, goes "coppicing" in Suffolk, swims beneath the walnut trees of the Haut-Languedoc, and hunts bushplums with Aboriginal women in the outback. Along the way, he ferrets out the mysteries of woods, detailing the life stories of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
172 p. : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
For 70 years, people have turned to one book to learn about Northwest trees: Trees to Know in Oregon. This new edition, retitled Trees to Know in Oregon and Washington, expands its scope to cover more territory and include more trees.
16) Big tree
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Sycamore seed siblings Merwin and Louise must use their wits and imaginations to navigate a mysterious and often dangerous world, filled with talking plants, monsters, meteors, and the fear of never finding the right conditions to set down roots and become big trees"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Description
Las cosas no podian ir peor. Cale esta castigado en su castillo y, esa misma noche, deberia ir con sus amigos al Bosque de la Niebla con las seis semillas. Pero como va a recuperar las sexta semilla si no puede salir?
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A cheerful and optimistic five-year-old Welsh girl named Georgie gets to grow her very own pine tree, Piney, on her Grandpa Sid's Christmas tree farm. Four years later, the day has finally arrived for Piney to become what he was planted to be. He's ready to be dressed up in baubles and bows and has bright shining lights from his head to his toes. Excited to take Piney into her home, Georgie discovers that Piney has accidentally been removed from the...
20) Sequoia
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 27 cm
Description
Standing tall above the tree line, Sequoia stretches his ancient arms and gathers clouds to him. He watches as days, seasons, years pass by. His branches are home to owls and choirs of frogs. Beneath his broad canopy, a world grows. This is his story.
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