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Imagination and Creativity & connection with naturebooks

Below are the best books we could find on Imagination and Creativity and connection with nature.

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The Outdoor Scientist: The Wonder of Observing the Natural World

What are the aerodynamics of skipping stones or the physics of making sandcastles? Do birds use GPS to navigate their migratory routes? In this book, Dr.

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Deep Play

With A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman let her free-ranging intellect loose on the natural world. Now in Deep Play she tackles the realm of creativity, by exploring one of the most essential aspects of our characters: the ability to play.

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Oaxaca Journal

Since childhood, Oliver Sacks has been fascinated by ferns: an ancient class of plants able to survive and adapt in many climates.

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The River of Consciousness

Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars) in which he explored many now-familiar disorders--autism, Tourette syndrome, face blindness.

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Painting the Woods: Nature, Memory, and Metaphor

Painting the Woods: Nature, Memory, and Metaphor explores the experience of landscape through the lens of art and art-making. It is a place-based meditation on nature, art, memory, and time, grounded in Paris’s experiences over the course of a year in Lennox Woods.

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Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales

Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for his neurological case histories and his fascination and familiarity with human behavior at its most unexpected and unfamiliar.

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Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

In “Ideas and Integrities” Buckminster Fuller describes the revolutionary designs and concepts he has pioneered – among them the geodesic dome, the Dymaxion world map, the Dymaxion 4-D house, the Dymaxion 4-D automobile, and the countless other structures and creations that have changed the...

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The Way of Imagination: Essays

Scott Russell Sanders shows how imagination, linked to compassion, can help us solve the urgent ecological and social challenges we face.

Scott Russell Sanders

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The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder

For many of us, thinking about the future conjures up images of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: a post-apocalyptic dystopia stripped of nature.

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