After all, what is the chief sign of growing old? Is it not the feeling that we know all there is to be known? It is not years which make people old; it is ruts, and limitation of interests. When we no longer care about anything except our own interests, we are then old, it […]
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Reading stories like the Little House Series, Caddie Woodlawn, Heidi, and Children of the New Forest, it’s difficult not to want to experience nature with our children. To be somewhere wild where there is adventure, beauty, spontaneity and freedom to explore.Spending a few hours outdoors together as a family this past weekend, I couldn’t help
We saw this very unusual looking wasp today at the Niguel Botanical Preserve. The picture is not mine, unfortunately, I didn’t have a camera with me. © Copyright John Ascher, 2006-2010 It was one of those “What on earth is that!?!” sightings. Its thread-like waist was just so unusual, I stopped to get a closer
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Do you get that thrill when you identify something new to you? Or something you have seen countless times but never had a name or an idea about it? I do. Our neighbor found this little bug on her back. My five year old helped me figure out what it was with our Kaufman Field
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A friend brought me these tulips. Aren’t they lovely? We might expect that the Lady Tulip would be a stately flower, if we should consider her history. She made her way into Europe from the Orient during the sixteenth century, bringing with her the honor of being the chosen flower of Persia, where her colors
Is it just me… or does the Handbook of Nature Study give you the impression that an effective teacher ought to collect things for the children’s classroom… living things, for the sake of observation and learning? Surely the instructions on how to create a pond aquarium or a small animal trap are for the reader’s
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The soil is the sepulcher and the resurrection of all life in the past. The greater the sepulcher the greater the resurrection. The greater the resurrection the greater the growth. The life of yesterday seeks the earth to-day that new life may come from it tomorrow. The soil is composed of stone flour and organic