Noticing: intimate encounters with the natural world

"Beloved for his insightful, inspiring nature writing, Richard Louv returns with his most personal book yet. Noticing is about finding yourself and understanding yourself better through encounters with the natural world. This helps readers develop their observational skills--sensory, scientific, artistic, and spiritual--to see and experience nature more fully, and actually build a relationship with the world around them. Through personal essays, rich with descriptions of the California wilderness around his home, Louv draws on wisdom from influences as diverse as neuroscience, photography, mindfullness, and what he calls "bioenchantment" to offer a completely new, deeper understanding of what it means to really see a tree"--