The Hidden Seasons: A Calendar of Nature’s Clues (Natural Navigation)

Take a look at the changes that take place in nature through the course of a year. Watch as the sun glows and dims, feel the change of temperature as the seasons cycle. Watch the sky as the clouds take on imaginary shapes, and look at the mysteries in the water as glaciers melt. Tristan Gooley, the adventurer and naturalist, details many of the influences that environmental conditions impose on flora and fauna. In a little more than a dozen chapters, the cyclic ecological responses to Mother Nature are recorded, such as the change in plant leaf pattern reflecting modifications in exposure to light, or the timing of reproductive cycles dependent on temperature, or inspect a hailstone to determine where in its parent cloud it was formed. The guidance encourages the reader to examine one’s settings and try to envisage those influences that shape one’s environment. This is a nature book that has its own program, one which emphasizes the varying effects that the seasonal conditions impose on the life surrounding us. It is an interesting read that will help the reader examine this world with a different approach.