The Art of Seeing Things
Title | The Art of Seeing Things PDF eBook |
Author | John Burroughs |
Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780815628804 |
A collection of essays by noted naturalist John Burroughs in which he contemplates a wide array of topics including farming, religion, and conservation. A departure from previous John Burroughs anthologies, this volume celebrates the surprising range of his writing to include religion, philosophy, conservation, and farming. In doing so, it emphasizes the process of the literary naturalist, specifically the lively connection the author makes between perceiving nature and how perception permeates all aspects of life experiences
The Art of Seeing Things
Title | The Art of Seeing Things PDF eBook |
Author | Charlotte Zoë Walker |
Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780815606789 |
A collection of essays by noted naturalist John Burroughs in which he contemplates a wide array of topics including farming, religion, and conservation. A departure from previous John Burroughs anthologies, this volume celebrates the surprising range of his writing to include religion, philosophy, conservation, and farming. In doing so, it emphasizes the process of the literary naturalist, specifically the lively connection the author makes between perceiving nature and how perception permeates all aspects of life experiences.
The Art of Seeing
Title | The Art of Seeing PDF eBook |
Author | Aldous Huxley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Eye |
ISBN |
Ways of Seeing
Title | Ways of Seeing PDF eBook |
Author | John Berger |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2008-09-25 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 014103579X |
Contains seven essays. Three of them use only pictures. Examines the relationship between what we see and what we know.
Seeing Things
Title | Seeing Things PDF eBook |
Author | Seamus Heaney |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 109 |
Release | 2014-01-13 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1466855738 |
Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels, of casting and gathering and the hushed, contrary air between water and sky, earth and heaven." Along with translations from the Aeneid and the Inferno, this book offers several poems about Seamus Heaney's late father.
Seeing Things
Title | Seeing Things PDF eBook |
Author | Joel Meyerowitz |
Publisher | Aperture Foundation |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781597113151 |
Uses photographs to provide examples on how to interpret and appreciate photographs, offering advice on characteristics such as color, timing, and emotion.
The Art of Noticing
Title | The Art of Noticing PDF eBook |
Author | Rob Walker |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2019-05-07 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 0525521259 |
An imaginative, thought-provoking gift book to awaken your senses and attune them to the things that matter in your life. Welcome to the era of white noise. Our lives are in constant tether to phones, to email, and to social media. In this age of distraction, the ability to experience and be present is often lost: to think and to see and to listen. Enter Rob Walker's The Art of Noticing. This gorgeously illustrated volume will spark your creativity--and most importantly, help you see the world anew. Through a series of simple and playful exercises--131 of them--Walker maps ways for you to become a clearer thinker, a better listener, a more creative workplace colleague and finally, to rediscover your sense of passion and to notice what really matters to you.