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Author : DAVID GEORGE. HASKELL
Release : 2021
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Book Rating : 286/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis ELEVEN WAYS TO SMELL A TREE. by : DAVID GEORGE. HASKELL
Download or read book ELEVEN WAYS TO SMELL A TREE. written by DAVID GEORGE. HASKELL. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David George Haskell
Release : 2021-10-28
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 901/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree by : David George Haskell
Download or read book Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree written by David George Haskell. This book was released on 2021-10-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree takes you on a journey to connect with trees through the sense most aligned to our emotions and memories. Thirteen essays are included that explore the evocative scents of trees, from the smell of a book just printed as you first open its pages, to the calming scent of Linden blossom, to the ingredients of a particularly good gin & tonic: In your hand: a highball glass, beaded with cool moisture. In your nose: the aromatic embodiment of globalized trade. The spikey, herbal odour of European juniper berries. A tang of lime juice from a tree descended from wild progenitors in the foothills of the Himalayas. Bitter quinine, from the bark of the South American cinchona tree, spritzed into your nostrils by the pop of sparkling tonic water. Take a sip, feel the aroma and taste of three continents converge. Each essay also contains a practice the reader is invited to experience. For example, taking a tree inventory of our own home, appreciating just how many things around us came from trees. And if you've ever hugged a tree when no one was looking, try breathing in the scents of different trees that live near you, the smell of pine after the rain, the refreshing, mind-clearing scent of a eucalyptus leaf crushed in your hand.
Author : David George Haskell
Release : 2022-08-30
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Book Rating : 958/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree by : David George Haskell
Download or read book Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree written by David George Haskell. This book was released on 2022-08-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexandra Horowitz
Release : 2013-01-17
Genre : Self-Help
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Book Rating : 226/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis On Looking by : Alexandra Horowitz
Download or read book On Looking written by Alexandra Horowitz. This book was released on 2013-01-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are missing at least eighty percent of what is happening around you right now. You are missing what is happening in your body, in the distance, and right in front of you. In marshalling your attention to these words, you are ignoring an unthinkably large amount of information that continues to bombard all of your senses. This ignorance is useful: indeed, we compliment it and call it concentration. It enables us to not just notice the shapes on the page, but to absorb them as intelligible words, phrases, ideas. Alas, we tend to bring this focus to every activity we do. In so doing, it is inevitable that we also bring along attention's companion: inattention to everything else. This book begins with that inattention. It is not a book about how to bring more focus to your reading of Tolstoy; it is not about how to multitask, attending to two or three or four tasks at once. It is not about how to avoid falling asleep at a public lecture, or at your grandfather's tales of boyhood misadventures. It is about attending to the joys of the unattended, the perceived 'ordinary'. Even when engaged in the simplest of activities - taking a walk around the block - we pay so little attention to most of what is right before us that we are sleepwalkers in our own lives. This book is about that walk around the block, and how to rediscover the extraordinary things that we are missing in our ordinary activities.
Author : Patricia Reilly Giff
Release : 2008-12-24
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 857/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Eleven by : Patricia Reilly Giff
Download or read book Eleven written by Patricia Reilly Giff. This book was released on 2008-12-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam is almost 11 when he discovers a locked box in the attic above his grandfather Mack’s room, and a piece of paper that says he was kidnapped. There are lots of other words, but Sam has always had trouble reading. He’s desperate to find out who he is, and if his beloved Mack is really his grandfather. At night he’s haunted by dreams of a big castle and a terrifying escape on a boat. Who can he trust to help him read the documents that could unravel the mystery? Then he and the new girl, Caroline, are paired up to work on a school project, building a castle in Mack’s woodworking shop. Caroline loves to read, and she can help. But she’s moving soon, and the two must hurry to discover the truth about Sam.
