Slow Nature Fast City
A beginner's guide to noticing and exploring nature in NYC
Category: Currently Reading
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Lyanda Lynn Haupt’s The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild is a beautiful introduction to the animals, seen and unseen, who share our urban spaces.
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William Powers tries out the self-paced and simple life in NYC in his thought-provoking new memoir “New Slow City: Living Simply in the World’s Fastest City.”
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Heather Wolf’s delightful “Birding at the Bridge: In Search of Every Bird at the Brooklyn Waterfront” begins with a quest. In order to hone her urban bird-watching skills, she set the goal of spotting 100 bird species in the Brooklyn Bridge Park. How many birds would visit the limited habitat of a new city park?…
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In “The Wander Society,” Keri Smith shares her personal discoveries from wandering. It’s a delightful and instructive guide to aimlessness.
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In “The Edge of the Sea,” Rachel Carson writes with a beautiful clarity about our very human attraction to the seashore and the deeper understanding we can find there.
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Alexandra Horowitz’s astounding and delightful “On Looking: Eleven Walks with Experts Eyes” will inspire you to never look at your own NYC block the same way ever again.
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The naturalist Leslie Day and illustrator Trudy Smoke’s “Field Guide to the Street Trees of New York City” is a wonderful introduction to the urban forest outside your window.
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