A celebration of the joy of being outdoors features a child who abandons his digital device in favor of joining a friend outside.

A mother explains to her son that in nature, an end is also a beginning as day gives way to night, winter ends and spring begins, and, after it stops falling, rain makes clouds for other storms.

In 'Of Time and Turtles', Sy Montgomery turns her journalistic curiosity to the wonder and wisdom of our long-lived co-habitants - turtles - and through their stories of hope and rescue, reveals to us astonishing new perspectives on time and healing.

In [this book, the author] talks with parents, children, teachers, scientists, religious leaders, child-development researchers, and environmentalists who recognize the threat and offer solutions. [He] shows us an alternative future, one in which parents help their kids experience the natural world more deeply - and find the joy of family connectedness in the process. -Dust jacket.

"...J. Drew Lanham explores his obsession with birds and all things wild in a mixture of poetry and prose."--

"In an effort to make sense of the deaths of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to learn what the natural world could teach her about sorrow and gladness. This book is the record of her experiences. It?s a stunning collection of carefully observed accounts of her life?tracking otters on the beach, cooking breakfast...

"In her newest collection, Moore selects essays that celebrate the music of the natural world as a reminder of what can be taken from us-the yowl of wolves, tick of barnacles, laughter of children, shriek of falling mountains. Alongside these selections are brand new essays born from the sorrow and iniquity of this new age of extinction, all bearing witness to the glories of this world and the sins against it. Each group of essays moves, as Moore...