#books about nature

[whilereadingandwalking]

Enjoyed your Book Riot post “11 Amazing Books About the Wonder of Trees.” You mentioned “there is a lot of fantastic nature writing by authors of color.” Could you recommend some titles or authors? I’ve read a few, but want to read more. Thanks!

Yes of course! Top is of course Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, which blew me away.

But there's a long list of other books I came across in my research that looked amazing and interesting, but didn't fit the more narrow subject of my list. I added these books to my own to-read list!

Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy

There’s Something In The Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities by Ingrid RG Waldron

The Unlikely Thru-Hiker By Derick Lugo

The Adventure Gap by James Edward Mills

As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis by Vandana Shiva

Green Deen: What Islam Teaches About Protecting the Planet by Ibrahim Abdul-Matin

Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage by Dianne D. Glave

Sustainable South Bronx: A Model for Environmental Justice by Majora Carter

Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States by Carl A. Zimring

Black Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn Finney

The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World - note: the editor is not BIPOC, but the book is: "essays from authors representing diverse backgrounds, including Japanese American, Mestizo, African American, Hawaiian, Arab American, Chicano and Native American"

#books about nature #bipoc authors #nature books #environmental justice

[cowardlyriver]

Eager by Ben Goldfarb is one of the best books I've read this year! Highly highly recommend!

#beaver #beavers #booklr #books #book #bookish #books about nature #books i love #highly reccomend it #highly recommend #rivers #river #ecosystem #book about beavers #science #nature #literary science #literary science writing #climate crisis #humans and nature #book community #quoteoftheday #quote #writing community #writersociety #writeblr #well written

[nerdladydraws]

A Must Read for Earth Day + Free Bookmarks!

If you are concerned about the planet, if you garden, if you work in or own a big business, if you like science memoirs, you must read Braiding Sweetgrass. I adored this book. Granted, I am a double major in English and Biology, so science texts with reflections on humanity and our place in the universe are *chef’s kiss* perfection for my soul. This is a collection of essays that weave…

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[myfairkatiecat]

I feel like Lucy Gray’s fashion sense had an influence on the Capitol. It’s mentioned in the book that she’s wearing makeup, which is notable to Coriolanus and he wonders where she got it from since it was barely becoming accessible again in the Capitol. In the movie one of his classmates mocks what she is wearing, asking if she thinks she’s a clown. It isn’t common to dress like her, but she owns her own style and the Capitol LOVES her. Coriolanus, as he tries to get sponsors for her, makes the case that since she is Covey perhaps she isn’t really district at all, in fact she’s really more Capitol than anything… and perhaps it rubbed off. Perhaps her sense of extra-ness, her fun makeup even at the reaping, her colorful dress at a dark occasion….perhaps that’s one part of her legacy that never truly goes away, even when the name of Lucy Gray Baird is erased from the memories of the people of Panem.

#I know it’s a stretch… #but it really stood out to me #like #someone saying ‘who does she think she is a clown’ in THE HUNGER GAMES? #out of the mouth of someone from the CAPITOL? #plus that line in the book about where her makeup came from #someone from the Capitol seriously surprised to see somebody in makeup #it’s possible they just continued to evolve as a culture #and they naturally assumed a more colorful and over-the-top style #but no I’m going to connect it to Lucy Gray bc I love her #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #tbosbas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #tbosas

[jeeaark]

Never seen an illithid recoil so fast when trying to give it smooches. Turns out there's a very good reason for it!

Wanted to draw my guardian boi one last time. First time the Emperor suggested it, got a lil affronted

Like, Squid bud, you don't think Greygold 'gets it'? You don't think Greygold had a bit of the 'don't belong's? the not-be-yourself-to-fit-in? Greygold gonna accept the shit out of you, buster. Gonna figure out dat squid biology one comedic lesson at a time.

Also. dat hair. I like to imagine when the emperor saw what would instantly gain Greygold's trust, the illithid was like-This is....Way too dreamy. Had to tone it down, Clark Kent dat Hunk-orc up with a hair-bun.

#bg3 spoilers #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #the emperor bg3 #bg3 emperor #greygold #bg3 comic #bg3 fanart #fuck those gold arm bands though #ain't drawing that again pssshh #a silly book cameo for the crit role fans #couldn't find the right words about nature and honesty so greygold gonna say it inaccurately not-the-best-I-tried #like its in Greygold 's nature to rip people apart with their bare hands #But they're pretty content kicking ass with a bow or using peaceful negotiations instead #maybe Greygold ain't saying it right but they just want buddy to be true to its squid heart

[ignitesthestxrs]

there's something about the way people talk about john gaius (incl the way the author writes him) that is like. so absent of any connection to te ao māori that it's really discomforting. like even in posts that acknowledge him as not being white, they still talk about him like a white, american leftist guy in a way that makes it clear people just AREN'T perceiving him as a māori man from aotearoa.

and it's just really serves to hammer home how powerful and pervasive whiteness and american hegemony is. because TLT is probably the single most Kiwi series in years to explode on the global stage, and all the things i find fraught about it as a pākehā woman reading a series by a pākehā author are illegible to a greater fandom of americans discoursing about whether or not memes are a valid way of portraying queer love.

idk the part of my brain that lights up every time i see a capital Z printed somewhere because of the New Zealand Mentioned??? instinct will always be proud of these books and muir. but i find myself caught in this midpoint of excitement and validation over my culture finding a place on the global stage, frustration at how kiwi humour and means of conveying emotion is misinterpreted or declared facile by an international audience, frustrated also by how that international audience runs the characters in this book through a filter of american whiteness before it bothers to interpret them, and ESPECIALLY frustrated by how muir has done a pretty middling job of portraying te ao māori and the māoriness of her characters, but tht conversation doesn't circulate in the same way* because a big part of the audience doesn't even realise the conversation is there to be had.

which is not to say that muir has done a huge glaring racism that non-kiwis haven't noticed or anything, but rather that there are very definitely things that she has done well, things that she has done poorly, things that she didn't think about in the first book that she has tacked on or expanded upon in the later books, that are all worthy of discussion and critique that can't happen when the popular posts that float past my dash are about how this indigenous man is 'guy who won't shut up about having gone to oxford'

*to be clear here, i'm not saying these conversations have never happened, just that in terms of like, ambient posts that float round my very dykey dash, the discussions and meta that circulate on this the lesbian social media, are overwhelmingly stripped of any connection to aotearoa in general, let alone te ao māori in specific. and because of the nature of american internet hegemony this just,,,isn't noticed, because how does a fish know it's in the ocean u know? i have seen discussions along these lines come up, and it's there if i specifically go looking for it, but it's not present in the bulk of tlt content that has its own circulatory life and i jut find that grim and a part of why the fandom is difficult to engage with.

#tlt #the locked tomb #i don't really have an answer lmao this is more #an expression of frustration and discomfort #over the way posts about john gaius seem to have very little connection to the background muir actually gave him #like you cant describe him as an educated leftist bisexual man #without INCLUDING that he is māori #that has an impact! that has weight and importance! #that is a background to every decision he makes #from the meat wall to the nuke to his relationship with the earth #and it also has weight and importance in the decisions that muir makes in writing him #it is not a neutral decision that he's known as john gaius lmao #it's not a neutral decision that the empire is explicitly of roman/latin extraction #it's not even neutral that this is a book about necromancy #it's certainly not a neutral fucking decision that john was at one point a māori man living in the bush #when the nz govt decided to send cops in #like that is a thing that happens here! that is a reference to nz cultural and political events that informs john's character and actions #and with the nature of who john is in the story #informs the narrative as a whole #and i think the tiresome part of this experience is that #in general #americans are not well positioned to understand that something might be being written from outside their experience as a default #like obviously many many americans in online leftist & queer spaces are willing to learn and take on new information #but so much of the conversation starts from a place of having to explain that forests exist to fish

[aroaceleovaldez]

It's honestly wild to me that ToA went through so much trouble to emphasize the fact that Will did not magically fix all of Nico's problems and was explicitly not Nico's only doctor.

Only for TSATS to have Will fix all of Nico's problems and have Nico be entirely reliant on him the entire book and literally helpless without him and LITERALLY have Nico's problems be magically removed.

#pjo #riordanverse #tsats crit #nico di angelo #solangelo #it doesnt make any sense too cause. in HoO we KNOW Nico was fully capable of handling himself in Tartarus #we already knew he was explicitly on his own. we know he had it worse than Percy and Annabeth did #because we are explicitly told that Nico saw Tartarus' true nature the ENTIRE TIME versus Percy only getting a tiny half-glimpse of it once #and Percy acknowledges that he would not be able to withstand actually seeing Tartarus more than he did without just dying on the spot #and Nico was down there for as long as Percy and Annabeth at least. on his own. flying blind and explicitly having it worse. #so it doesnt make sense to totally retcon Nico's ENTIRE experiences with Tartarus to make him sopping wet and pathetic about it #needing to be helped and only being down there for twenty minutes and crying the whole time #and then all of the book he's literally functionally helpless without Will for some reason. despite being in his element. #could not get more in his element than being in the Underworld. my guy literally lives there. that's his HOUSE. that's his YARD. #and he's still just totally sopping wet and pathetic in Tartarus the second time around #like im sorry. no. we literally have previously established canon indicating this is absolutely not the case #that is not something you can retcon. that is an entire major event. it was not glossed over. #unless you are doing time travel and it's a canonical retcon a la Homestuck im sorry the events of TSATS just could never occur #(not to mention Damasen is just never acknowledged in TSATS and him and Bob were absorbed by Tartarus the god and ergo dead in HoH) #(so Bob and Damasen are like. *Gone* gone. they didn't just die to be reformed later they got ERASED.) #(and Nyx sure as hell isnt gonna be the one to have Bob trapped for whatever reason. definitely not cause she hates light/change/whatever) #(nyx is literally the mother/sister [depends on version - sometimes a mitosis situation] of the personification of day? and sky?) #(and FRIENDSHIP? and the nymphs of sunset? sometimes also CHEERFULNESS? and THOUGHTFULNESS? and old age) #(ah yes the mother of concepts such as love/friendship and aging and. day. would HATE [checks notes] love/friendship changing and light) #(she INVENTED THOSE) < anyways thank u for coming to my aside rant in the tags #in parenthesis to indicate this is an aside/tangent rant. anyways i have so many problems with this plot. it just DOESNT WORK #on NO LEVEL DOES IT WORK AT ALL WITH ESTABLISHED CANON

[unpretty]

i really do my best with literary fiction but the problem is that they keep sneaking edutainment in there but there's not like, a blacklistable tag for that, that tells me i don't actually want to read this and would be better off reading nonfiction on the covered topics. i'm sure this seems like a specific complaint but it's happened like three times in the last year and i only managed to finish one of them.

like does this book actually have queer representation in a way that will make me feel seen, or will this book have a part where the main character seems to look at the straight person they're expecting to exist beyond the fourth wall in order to teach them about stonewall or whatever. are they going to start 'as you know bob'-ing actual history at me. why does this keep happening. do the writers actually want to do the fiction equivalent of those youtube channels that just read wikipedia articles, or can i blame bad editors to make myself feel better

#original #this probably explains a lot about my 'no middle sliders' stance on books #i guess blackouts SORT of did something like this but in that case it felt really natural and flowed with the core conceit #so i'm not including it in this complaint of mine #if they were all like that i would be fine with it #even though between you and me blackouts was REALLY hard to read on a kindle. read that one in print imho.

[noonemonitorsmyscreentime]

What I think is kind of interesting is that if Dean Casca Highbottom, seeing exactly how good of a student Young Coriolanus Snow was, had taken the boy under his wing instead of despising him and trying to get revenge on a boy that never knew his father (and who only had of his father the words of others about the great man that he was), he might have had a good helping hand in stopping the games he so deeply despised.

It would have been, at the same time, quite a revenge on Crassus Snow to use his son to dismantle the Games the man helped implement. Not only that, but it would have offered young Coryo a person to depend on during his most formative years where he had to grow up under the immense pressure of keeping up appearances, taking care of an ailing grandmother and fighting everyday to keep himself and his family fed.

What Casca failed to realise during the 10th Games was that there weren't 24 tributes, but 25. Snow was fighting for survival just as much as the rest; of course, with the caveat that Snow was never in danger of losing his life. But, for a boy who had for all his life to survive instead of to live, those two might have been the same thing. In saving himself, Coryo would also save Tigris and his grandmother, while all the other tributes were saving mosty themselves since they would be going home with nothing to show for winning the games other than their lives and some (crippling in some cases) trauma.

Maybe things would have played out differently, maybe not, but we have seen time and time again through all four of the Hunger Games books, the power of a kind gesture: Peeta with the bread, Rue healing Katniss, Katniss singing to Rue, Mags sacrificing herself, Boggs treating Katniss like a young traumatised girl when no one else did. Who knows if Snow (and, in turn, the rest of Panem) wouldn't have benefited from it?

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #dean casca highbottom #coryo snow #coriolanus snow #sorry if some of the takes aren't quite on par with the book #this was mostly written and inspired by the movie it has been a while since i've read the book #tbosas #the hunger games #hunger games #10th hunger games #of course we could get into a disscusion about nurture versus nature #was snow ways destined to be evil or was it something that he became #how much can be excused until it becomes unexcusable and when does he truly take responsability for his actions

[tanyaluca]

Goodbye Winter…

Tanya Luca

#tanya luca #photographers on tumblr #black and white photography #black and white #about photography #harmony #photobook #nature #photoblog #photografy #photo collection #photo blog #photo archive #photo author #buy books #buy books online #winter #february #goodbye winter #hello spring

[lazycranberrydoodles]

hanguang-jun...

lan wangji in ace attorney!! turn on sound 🔊 / traced over edgeworth's sprites :) more info below the cut ↓

also including a bonus Happy Wangji that i couldn't fit into the video!

his share code is YCNKBA! the music used is Recollection -- Light and Shadow of the Film Studio. I thought it had a nice, contemplative feel, between Suspense, which was too intense for the scene, and Heartbroken Maya, which was too sad. the wwx/jc/lwj reunion scene is truly sososo interesting in every adaptation.

→ masterpost here! ←

#my emotional support longterm semi-obscure crossover animation series based off of a throwaway joke #i poured all my thoughts about the jc/wwx reunion into my yiling patriarch shitpost just like. scroll a bit down on my blog #would love for jc to have more expressions in this but sadly if i have to go back and edit a finished piece i spontaneously combust 😔 #lan wangji and miles edgeworth autistic kings #its very funny to me that my sprite with the most emotions yet is the character that famously doesnt emote #i used the internet archive EXR translation again #edited some of the dialogue cause it didn't sound very natural/was too long #but i also found out that the entire series of official english mdzs books are on the internet archive?? straight up?? #by 2042 ill have animated every single character and recreated the entire novel in objection.lol so watch out for that lmao #mdzs aa au #mdzs #aa #lan wangji #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mxtx #wangxian #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #twin prides of yunmeng #ace attorney #animation #art #my art #pixel art #objection.lol #flashing tw #flashing images tw #flashing cw

[jadafitch]

Went out to the pond to take this photo, and heard the first spring peepers of the year. Yay! It's officially spring in Downeast, Maine.

This illustration is one over 100 I did for the forth Nature Smarts activity book from Mass Audubon and Storey Publishing. Nature Smarts Workbook: All About Water, Ages 4-6 is available for preorder now, and out May 21st. You can find it through Amazon, Mass Audubon, and other book sellers.

#vernal #pond #pool #amphibians #frogs #illustration #jada fitch #art #maine #drawing #nature #naturalist #kid's illustration #kid #children's #outdoors #outdoor #activity book #outdoor activities #kids #workbook #ages 4-6 #educational #mass audubon #homeschool #new england #wildlife #water #all about water #vernal pond

[happyheidi]

#cottagecore #there’s something so calming about touching dirt #feeling it in your hands <3 #nature #naturecore #plants #farmcore #books #flowers #flowercore #dirtcore

[markscherz]

do you like tuataras ..

Yeah they're okay I guess

#herpetology #Sphenodon #Sphenodon punctata #natural history museum #CuratorCore #pictures of my face #that thing on the front of my skull #selfie #animals #tuatara #Rhynchocephalia #I currently have perhaps the only stuffed tuatara in Denmark residing in my office #because it is damaged and I had to confiscated it from a teaching collection #this thing is absolutely precious and should not be handled all the time #we are trying to get it fixed now #I know that this guy who is an intern at a coffee company made a whole thing about tuatara in a book he wrote #but I haven't managed to read it yet #so I do not understand nerdfighteria's relationship with tuatara at all #but I know that there is one #and that's beautiful #I am the worst nerdfighter #anyway #tuatara are very cool #but the whole third eye thing REALLY irks me #like #have you SEEN Chalarodon madagascariensis? #Tuatara's third eye ain't shit

[wehavewords]

“I notice Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

#wehavewords #friedrich nietzsche #words #quotes #life quotes #life #quotes about life #true words #autumn #fall quotes #nature quotes #quotes about souls #favorite quotes #book inspiration

[toastandjamie]

Hey so I wanna talk about the two distinct types of evil present in WoT, the Dark one and Shadar Logoth.

These evils are similar in that they amplify negative emotions to the point that they boil over into cruelty and violence, where they differ however is that the emotions that draw people to them are born from different places, the dark one being an internal force where as Shadar Logoth relies on external forces.

The dark one is very classic satan allegory where the emotions he preys upon are the seven deadly sins. Greed, envy, lust, pride. The people who seek out the dark one and become dark friends usually feel like they are entitled to something that they aren’t receiving, whether that’s power, money, attention, knowledge- the dark one in turn offers them a way to achieve these goals they feel they deserve but evil is a corruptive force and eventually these feelings of envy and greed grow to the point where they no longer care about who gets hurt in the process of attaining their perceived just reward. The core of the Dark Ones evil is selfishness.

Shadar Logoth by contrast is a more “sympathetic” evil, born of feelings of anxiety and fear. Shadar Logoth was born from the people of Aridhol’s fears of the Trolloks and dark friends and as that paranoia grew they lashed out inwards and destroyed themselves. The evil of Shadar Logoth doesn’t make you violent or angry, the irritability and violence we associate it with are just side affects of the long lasting stress the evil does amplify. The core of Shadar Logoths evil is distrust.

These two types of evil while they do claim to despise eachother are not mutually exclusive however as we see Padan Faine seamlessly blend his greed and pride with Mordreth’s anxiety and fear, which feed on eachother until it developed into what we see him become where he’s callous and cruel, and specifically in the way he targets Rand, he “hates” Rand because of the anxiety that was born of failing the dark one and being tortured was amplified and mixed with his already present contempt and feelings of superiority.

However we see the flaws in the evil in the characters that manage to break out of the cycles of violence that they both feed on.

Verin, though she doesn’t go in with the intention of joining the dark went in with the selfish motivation of seeking out knowledge not for the good of the world but out of curiosity and boredom. She breaks away from the corruptive evil by her selfless act of sacrificing herself to bring to light the knowledge of the black ajah to the Tower.

Mat, is an interesting case because the corruptive nature of Shadar Logoth is more obvious. We see his fear amplified and it might be easy to say that the only reason he was freed from the evil was outside intervention and while that was what finished the job of cutting out the rot we also learn that he held up surprisingly well against the daggers corruption. He was able to last as long as he did because he was willing to be vulnerable and trust Rand. He was able to suppress many of the violent urges his fear created by sheer force of will because of the fact that he knew that he COULD trust someone which is antithetical to the evil of shadar logoth.

The two evils can survive on their own but they truly thrive in tandem and that was what made Faine so powerful that both the light and dark feared him. Because he exemplified all the worst parts of humanity all the fear, distrust, greed, envy and hate all personified into one being. The one thing however the destroys them both is in the most cliche of senses love, it is trust and kindness and selflessness that both evils can not defend against.

#wheel of time #wheel of time spoilers #major wot book spoilers #shadar logoth #the dark one #wot meta #we love talking about the true nature of evil