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Nature Journal

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If you have the original book "Keeping a Nature Journal" then you will find this journal to be awesome. It is for using what you learned in book 1 to make your own recordings. Beautifully bound. Very nice item. Of course it is blank...it is a journal.

If you have ever read one of Clare Walker Leslie's books before, then it won't surprise you that this is a Journal that invites you to go out into nature daily, but gives you ways to make your journal special and your own personal work of art. She shows you the basics of how to draw birds, flowers, trees, etc. to make your time in the outdoors more fun. If you follow her ideas, you will find that you will get down your old journals for years to come and look at them. They will all bring back fond as well as bad memories. You will find yourself putting them all down.

I'm new to nature journaling, but not new to nature. I am, in fact, a geezer who has spent much of his life outdoors. A friend told me that I should get 'Keeping a Nature Journal' by Leslie and Roth, which I did. Knowing nothing I also bought 'Nature Journal'.
'Keeping' it's a great book. It will inspire you to journal, if you don't already. There's also plenty for semi-experienced or experienced journalists. If you, like most of us, don't think you can draw, buy this book.
However, I'm reviewing 'Nature Journal'.
'Nature Journal' is a bunch of blank pages for journaling. There are tips, etc, but it is mainly a pallet for self expression - journaling. What is so great about this book is the quality of the paper. You can erase any pencil drawings and hardly know they existed - particularly useful for newbies. I would think that the paper quality would also be great for pen and ink drawings (not there yet).
I recommend the exercises in 'Keeping' but I use a standard Composition notebook for this. I try to draw daily from photographs (mine, but there are plenty available on the net.

The editorial of this book is inadequate. It should say in bold: "This book has LOTS of blank pages for you to use."

If you are looking for a book on HOW to journal this is *NOT* the product you want. This book is just as it says:

A journal (i.e. lots of BLANK pages for $11+ dollars!)

If you are wanting a book on how to journal buy her other book... "Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You"