O, Sweet Nature Books

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! 
Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, 
the laws of the universe will be simpler.   —Henry David Thoreau

Ebooks about Nature and Creativity

Draw and Paint Trees: Sketching in Watercolor
What if there was a way to quickly learn some basic art principles that put a zing in all your drawing and painting? Karla Beatty’s Draw and Paint Trees: Sketching in Watercolor is the manual you need to get you out of the studio and into drawing and painting outdoors. This beautiful little ebook shows you the skills you need to make high quality drawings and paintings of trees.  Description -->

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Find a New Career: A Creative Approach
Workbook and Guide
What if you could find out what your ideal career should be? For creatives, reading an ordinary book just won’t do. Try these insightful exercises, quizzes, and tips. Finally! Here is a career guide with a creative approach—a workbook that helps help you answer these questions, and more. You CAN create your ideal full-life career.   Description -->

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Print Books

Modelling and Sculpting the Human Figure
Traditional sculpture techniques taught step-by-step, with photographs. How to create figurative sculpture in clay. See examples by an artist who uses this book.

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On Drawing Trees in Nature: A Classic Victorian Manual
Vintage art training in traditional techniques of drawing trees—foliage, branches, trunks, and more.

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The Artistic Anatomy of Trees
A classic text-book quality drawing manual by Rex Vicat Cole. Detailed information presented as botany for artists.

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A Year of Making 
Herbal Medicines at Home
Learn to safely make and use herbal tinctures, teas, and topicals from plants in your yard and garden with this step-by-step pictorial instruction manual by Dr. David Beatty, an osteopathic physician and herbalist from the mountains of southeastern West Virginia. 

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