Nature

Lectures on Landscape

by John Ruskin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Lectures on Landscape presents a thought-provoking exploration of landscape painting through the eyes of John Ruskin, a prominent artist and…

Poems of Nature

by Henry David Thoreau Read by Larry Wilson 5
The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of the…

Talks About Flowers

by Mary Decker Wellcome Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
To all Flower Lovers who may read these pages, we come with kindly greetings. To you we dedicate our Work. Encouraged by the many testimonia…

The Adventures of Maya the Bee

by Waldemar Bonsels Read by Betsie Bush 4.7
The Adventures of Maya the Bee is an exciting tale for children of all ages. Themes of growth and development of courage and wisdom are foun…

Meteorology

by J. G. M'Pherson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Meteorology by J. G. M'Pherson offers a clear and accessible exploration of the atmospheric phenomena that shape our world. This instruction…

Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China

by Robert Fortune Read by Steve Cullen 4.8
An account by Scottish botanist of his journey to China to discover the secret of producing tea and securing plants for propagation outside…

The Journal of Henry David Thoreau

by Henry David Thoreau Read by PhyllisV 4.5
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist,h…

Birds in the Calendar

by Frederick G. Aflalo Read by Ruth Golding 4.5
Delightful sketches of British wild birds - a bird for every month of the year from the pheasant in January to the robin in December. This c…

The Andes and The Amazon

by James Orton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This book, with the subtitle "Across the Continent of South America" describes the scientific expedition of 1867 to the equatorial…

Spices, their histories

by Robert O. Fielding Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
A surprisingly complete and informative 64-page booklet describing common spices used in cooking and for other purposes. Written especially …

Nature's Miracles

by Elisha Gray Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Nature's Miracles invites listeners into the fascinating world of science and technology through accessible discussions that demystify compl…

The National Geographic Magazine

by National Geographic Society Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 3 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:The Rivers and Valleys of PennsylvaniaTopographic M…

Notes of An East Coast Naturalist

by Arthur Henry Patterson Read by TND 5
Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist with an immeasurable knowledge and perspicacity of the Broadland region’s flora and faun…

The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children

by Jane Andrews Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
"You may think that Mother Nature, like the famous "old woman who lived in the shoe," has so many children that she doesn't k…

The Natural History

by Pliny the Elder Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …

Summer in a Garden

by Charles Dudley Warner Read by Mark Penfold 4.8
This is Warner's contemplative and humorous account of the wondrous and mysterious workings of a garden he tended for 19 weeks. After this i…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection we…

Florida Trails

by Winthrop Packard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, has given us such accounts as Wild Pastures, Wood Wanderings, and White Mountain Trails now he takes …

The Grand Cañon of the Colorado

by John Muir Read by Rebecca Eden Walker 4.2
Nothing is ordinary in the world of John Muir, naturalist and author known as the Father of the US National Parks. In this short work, writ…

The Natural History

by Pliny the Elder Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …

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