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So begins Henry David Thoreau's Journal, one of the major projects of the naturalist's career, and one that would eventually comprise nearly one two million words.

Commonplace 2010

He could see him, as he had last seen him, stripped of the shot-gun and all the naturalist's gear of his master, lying on the narrow trail where he had been decapitated barely the moment before.

THE RED ONE 2010

Through the early years of his administration, Daley's Johnny Appleseed tree-planting fascination helped evolve him from an aesthetic ideologue into a leader who began to look at his dense city though a naturalist's eyes.

Henry Henderson: Daley's Legacy: Re-Thinking the American City Henry Henderson 2011

These why-we-should-listen sections are where his naturalist's knowledge and his passion for his subject move to the fore.

The Orchestra After Dark Hugh Raffles 2011

He could see him yet, his queer little monkeyish face eloquent with fear, his back burdened with specimen cases, in his hands Bassett's butterfly net and naturalist's shot-gun, as he quavered, in Beche-de-mer English: Me fella too much fright along bush.

THE RED ONE 2010

So begins Henry David Thoreau's Journal, one of the major projects of the naturalist's career, and one that would eventually comprise nearly one two million words.

Checking in on Thoreau: The first entry 2009

So begins Henry David Thoreau's Journal, one of the major projects of the naturalist's career, and one that would eventually comprise nearly one two million words.

A Different Stripe: 2009

There's a lot of the French romantic farce in this film, photographed with a naturalist's eye and paced brilliantly through to the oh-so-human conclusion.

Turnstyle: [AFI FEST REVIEW] Extraterrestrial Turnstyle 2011

While wandering through a giant used book store recently with the Delaware problem on my mind, I found they actually had a single book in the Ds in their state section, this naturalist's account of a year at a local pond from 1968, which, miraculously, appears to be in print.

An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008

I read a little book about an owl living in a naturalist's home some years ago; it would be great to read another, more in-depth account.

Wesley the Owl (copy) ____Maggie 2008