Reimagines Francis of Assisi's 1224 prayer of praise in celebration of God's gifts throughout the universe

A mother explains to her son that in nature an end is also a beginning as day gives way to night, winter ends and spring begins, and, after it stops falling, rain makes clouds for other storms

An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four,...

As he is being put to bed a child asks his father a series of challenging questions about the physical reality of our planet.

A rhyming tale of a city dog's first outing in the country

Poetic prose describes a full autumn moon and the magical effect it has on the earth, plants, animals, and people around it.

Nature displays different colors to announce the seasons of the year

Upon moving to a new house, young Caroline and her parents encourage wildflowers to grow and birds and animals to stay in their yard, which soon has the whole suburban street living up to its name