The Cocoon Harvest December 29 [From Gibson’s Sharp Eyes: A Ramblers Calendar of Fifty-Two Weeks Among Insects, Birds and Flowers – Originally Published in 1898 and illustrated by William Hamilton Gibson Author and Illustrator.] NOW is the time to lay up your store of cocoons, looking to those beautiful moths of next: June; and there…
Category: Nature
Emotional Bankruptcy Caused by Alienation from Nature
In Women Who Run With the Wolves, Estes associates Nature with the Wild Woman Self. She describes her childhood, during which she grew up and into nature. “ I was raised up near the Michigan state line, surrounded by woodlands, orchards, and farmland and near the Great Lakes. There, thunder and lightning were my main nutrition….
Small in the City by Sydney Smith – A Picture Book that Looks at the City [as Opposed to Nature]
Small in the CIty Sydney Smith 2019 Holiday House Rated as One of the Best Picture Books of 2019 by School Library Journal This book has become one of my all-time favorites. But I won’t give away many of those reasons. This is the kind of book that you absolutely MUST read for yourself. There…
Winnie and the Wood in Tuck Everlasting
In Chapter 1 of Tuck Everlasting, we read that the Wood is the hub [of the wheel of life]. In this comment, Winnie is acknowledging the fact that Nature is of utmost importance in the book Tuck Everlasting. In Tuck, Nature is an important Theme. Nature as a Theme in Literature When Nature is a…
Jacki Kellum Looks at the Book Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Many of us write, but few of us create literature. Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting is literature. She had created literature before Chapter 1 of the book, Within a few words, Babbitt writes volumes–in the Prologue. Within a few words, Tuck Everlasting had become more than a mere spattering of words. Natalie Babbitt said the following…
Nature as a Theme in Literature
Map of the 100 Acre Wood in Winnie the Pooh Nature is often called The Wood in British literature “Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wild World,” said the Rat. “And that’s something that doesn’t matter, either to you or to me. I’ve never been there, and I’m never going, nor you either, if you’ve…