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Sitting In The Bush, Or Deliberate Idleness, Sylvia Bowerbank Feb 2017

Sitting In The Bush, Or Deliberate Idleness, Sylvia Bowerbank

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In this essay, Sylvia Bowerbank describes wandering with her two dogs on her land on the edge of Beverly Swamp in Southern Ontario in an effort to cultivate Green habits and attitudes in her daily life.


Branches Over Ripples: A Waterside Journal, Brian Bartlett Mar 2016

Branches Over Ripples: A Waterside Journal, Brian Bartlett

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Branches Over Ripples: A Waterside Journal is a fifty-entry plein-air writing project drafted between April 2013 and October 2014 by various bodies of water—rivers, brooks, lakes, bays, marshes, waterfalls, a vernal pond, a Japanese koi pond. Most of the writing was done in Nova Scotia locations, but some entries were drafted in New Brunswick, Montreal, Missouri, Manhattan, and London, England. I often walked from an hour to four or five hours, then sat down on bare earth, grass, sand, stone, or wood, and wrote, keeping attuned to my surroundings but also letting my mind and memory wander.


Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar By Brian Bartlett, Joel Deshaye Aug 2015

Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar By Brian Bartlett, Joel Deshaye

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Joel Deshaye reviews Brian Bartlett's Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar