The Wild Out Your Window: Exploring Nature Near at Hand

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Summary: Another Sy Montgomery winner.
Review: Right off let me say I'm a Sy Montgomery fan. Within this book the reader will find a seemingly endless amount of interesting information on an incredible array of topics such as moss, flowers, bird irruptions, where bugs go in winter, plants' healing poisons, canned wildlife and on and on. Of course not an in depth study but enough valid information, gleaned from reliable sources, to inform in a fashion I find exciting as well as educational. Certainly enough to entice further investigation. Frankly, I enjoy subjects presented in this fashion and if it wasn't for the not so great editing this book deserves 5 stars.

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Summary: Insightful, poignant, filled with reverence and wonder
Review: The Wild Out Your Window: Exploring Nature Near At Hand is a wonderful and highly recommended collection of fifty essays by naturalist and Sy Montgomery, most of which originally appeared in the Boston Globe column "Nature Journal," in which Sy invites the reader to share in a season-by-season exploration of the wonders of nature. Insightful, poignant, filled with reverence and wonder for the splendor of the world, The Wild Out Your Window is a "must read" for both armchair travelers and active nature enthusiasts.