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Our Winter 2026 PLP Nature Book Club Selection is Bernd Heinrich’s “Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival”
We will be holding it via Zoom on Tuesday, January 27 from 7:30-9:00PM EST.
Meeting ID: 432 655 0868, Passcode: plpnature
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4326550868?pwd=TlR5NGNSdXZkSEhHR1FITHd3TDVYdz09&omn=84780680705
From Goodreads:.
From award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich, an intimate, accessible and eloquent illumination of animal survival in Winter.
From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who must alter their environment to accommodate our physical limitations, animals are adaptable to an amazing range of conditions--i.e., radical changes in a creature's physiology take place to match the demands of the environment. Winter provides an especially remarkable situation, because of how drastically it affects the most elemental component of all life: water.
Examining everything from food sources in the extremely barren winter landscape to the chemical composition that allows certain creatures to survive, Heinrich's Winter World awakens the largely undiscovered mysteries by which nature sustains herself through the harsh, cruel exigencies of winters
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Hope to see you all there!
Previous books we have read:
August 17, 2020 – “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There” by Aldo Leopold
November 9, 2020 – “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” by Annie Dillard
March 23, 2021 – “The Edge of the Sea” by Rachel Carson
June 8, 2021 – “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau
July 27, 2021 – ““The Pine Barrens” by John McPhee
September 28, 2021 – “Last Chance to See” by Douglas Adams
January 11, 2022 – “A Plank Bridge by a Pool” by Norman Thelwell
April 26, 2022 - " “The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors” by David George Haskell
July 22, 2022 - “Six Walks” by Ben Shattuck
October 18, 2023 - “Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter” by Ben Goldfarb
January 24, 2023 - "Four Fifths a Grizzly" By Douglas Chadwick
April 25, 2023 - "The Winter of the Fisher" by Cameron Langford
July 25, 2023 - "How It Went" by Wendell Berry
November 14, 2023 - "Tropical Nature” by Adrian Forsyth and Ken Miyata
March 5, 2024 - "Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet" by Ben Goldfarb
July 16, 2024 - "Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest" by Suzanne Simard
August 27, 2024 - Dick Cary's "Forest History" and "Conservation Report"
November 12, 2024 - "Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are"" by Rebecca Boyle
February 18, 2025 - "Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe" by Carl Safina
April 15, 2025 - “Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness” by Sy Montgomery
July 22, 2025 - “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants” by Robin Wall Kimmerer
October 14, 2025 - “Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark” by Leigh Ann Henion
Recording of our November 11, 2020 Discussion of Annie Dillard's "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"
Recording of our March 23, 2021 Discussion of Rachel Carson's "The Edge of the Sea"
Recording of our June 8, 2021 Discussion of Henry David Thoreau's "Walden"
Recording of our August 27, 2024 Discussion with Dick Carey about his "Forest History" which can be found by clicking here.
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