Guardians of the Trees

Author: Kinari Webb, M.D.
Publisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN: 1250751403
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
"EMPOWERING...KINARI WEBB IS AN INSPIRATION." --BILL MCKIBBEN "A WONDERFUL BOOK." --JANE GOODALL A TIMELY, HOPEFUL MEMOIR ABOUT A WOMAN SPEARHEADING A GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO HEAL THE WORLD'S RAINFORESTS AND THE COMMUNITIES WHO DEPEND ON THEM Full of hope and optimism, Kinari Webb takes us on an exhilarating, galvanizing journey across the world, sharing her passion for the natural world and for humanity. In our current moment of crisis, Guardians of the Trees is an essential roadmap for moving forward and the inspiring story of one woman’s quest to heal the world. When Webb first traveled to Indonesian Borneo at 21 to study orangutans, she was both awestruck by the beauty of her surroundings and heartbroken by the rainforest destruction she witnessed. As she got to know the local communities, she realized that their need to pay for expensive healthcare led directly to the rampant logging, which in turn imperiled their health and safety even further. Webb realized her true calling was at the intersection of medicine and conservation. After graduating with honors from the Yale School of Medicine, Webb returned to Borneo, listening to local communities about their solutions for how to both protect the rainforests and improve their lives. Founding two non-profits, Health in Harmony in the U.S. and ASRI in Indonesia, Webb and her local and international teams partnered with rainforest communities, building a clinic, developing regenerative economies, providing educational opportunities, and dramatically transforming the region. But just when everything was going right, Webb was stung by a deadly box jellyfish and would spend the next four years fighting for her life, a fight that would lead her to rethink everything. Was she ready to expand her work to a global scale and take climate change head on?

The Guardian Gateway

Author: Kim Wilborn
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401961282
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
There's more to the spirit world than Guardian Angels! Connect with your Guardian Unicorns, Dragons, Trees, and Nature Spirits today through guided meditations and spiritual exercises. Express your soul purpose while partnering with your spiritual Guardians and Allies! Step through the Guardian Gateway and meet the Angels, Unicorns, Dragons, Trees, Spirit of the Earth, and other beings who are all around you, ready to support your life's goals. Kim Wilborn offers guided meditations and exercises to enable you to feel your connection with the spirit world today and continue developing your relationships with specific Guardians. As you work with your Guardians, you'll learn life-expanding, transformational skills that support you in sharing your gifts with the world and showing up fully in life as who you are meant to be!

Guardians of the Valley

Author: Dean King
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982144467
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480

Book Description
The dramatic and uplifting story of legendary outdoorsman and conservationist John Muir’s journey to become the man who saved Yosemite—from the author of the bestselling Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival. In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir—iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher—meets face-to-face for the first time with his longtime editor Robert Underwood Johnson, an elegant and influential figure at The Century magazine. Before long, the pair, opposites in many ways, decide to venture to Yosemite Valley, the magnificent site where twenty years earlier, Muir experienced a personal and spiritual awakening that would set the course of the rest of his life. Upon their arrival the men are confronted with a shocking vision, as predatory mining, tourism, and logging industries have plundered and defaced “the grandest of all the special temples of Nature.” While Muir is consumed by grief, Johnson, a champion of society’s most pressing debates via the pages of the nation’s most prestigious magazine, decides that he and Muir must fight back. The pact they form marks a watershed moment, leading to the creation of Yosemite National Park, and launching an environmental battle that captivates the nation and ushers in the beginning of the American environmental movement. Beautifully rendered, deeply researched, and inspiring, Guardians of the Valley is a moving story of friendship, the written word, and the transformative power of nature. It is also a timely and powerful “origin story” as the toweringly complex environmental challenges we face today become increasingly urgent.

The Tree Guardian

Author: Leah Vis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732811874
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
An enchanting story about a young girl, the Giant Trees, and a Tree Guardian. Frala is the daughter of the great Village Guide. Someday she too will lead her people. After struggling in her role, she encounters a revered Tree Guardian who shares marvelous secrets of the Giant Forest.This story weaves fascinating facts about the Sequoia Forest into a beautiful tale of nature, leadership, and community. Included with every book is a page of amazing Sequoia Forest fun facts.Let the Sequoia Forest come alive through this charming story.

Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

Author: Laura Geringer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442430486
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Forget naughty or nice; this is a battle of good and evil. Luminary Joyce and co-author Geringer deliver the first book in a new series. Before Santa was Santa, he was Nicholas St. North--a daredevil swordsman whose prowess with double scimitars was legendary. Illustrations.

Rise of the Guardians Movie Novelization

Author:
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442430753
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
Join forces with the Guardians to defeat Pitch in this retelling of the DreamWorks animated feature "Rise of the Guardians, " opening in theaters on November 21.

The Rise of a Legend (Guardians of Ga'Hoole)

Author: Kathryn Lasky
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545509807
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
Bestselling author Kathryn Lasky takes flight once more with a brand-new Guardians of Ga'Hoole novel! An owlet hatches out onto Stormfast Island and into a world torn by war. For one hundred years, his people have fought off enemy owls from the Ice Talons, but the tide has turned. An invasion is coming, one the Kielian League won't have the strength to resist. Soon the tyrant owl Bylyric will rule over everything, and no honorable owl will be safe. Only the small owl from Stormfast stands between Bylyric and total victory. Lyze is not very impressive to look at, but he has a wild idea for a snake and owl strike unit that just might give the soldiers of the Kielian League the edge they need.This is his story, the story of an ordinary owl who rose to become Ezylryb of the Great Tree. This is the story of what it takes to make a Guardian of Ga'Hoole.

Finding the Mother Tree

Author: Suzanne Simard
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0525656103
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. In this, her first book, now available in paperback, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths--that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. Simard writes--in inspiring, illuminating, and accessible ways—how trees, living side by side for hundreds of years, have evolved, how they learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication, characteristics ascribed to human intelligence, traits that are the essence of civil societies--and at the center of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. And Simard writes of her own life, born and raised into a logging world in the rainforests of British Columbia, of her days as a child spent cataloging the trees from the forest and how she came to love and respect them. And as she writes of her scientific quest, she writes of her own journey, making us understand how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology, that it is about understanding who we are and our place in the world.

The Island of Missing Trees

Author: Elif Shafak
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635578604
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Winner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." -David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he's searching for lost love. Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited--- her only connection to her family's troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world. A moving, beautifully written, and delicately constructed story of love, division, transcendence, history, and eco-consciousness, The Island of Missing Trees is Elif Shafak's best work yet.

The Man Who Planted Trees

Author: Jean Giono
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN: 9780720613346
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A solitary man plants a forest over many years, rejuvenating a barren wasteland.