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He took his first hike into the Sierra Nevada, the landscape of his obsession, while still in the womb. His parents named him John Muir Laws. He once spent a week searching for a single perfect orchid to paint. He says " I am constantly amazed by things" Such as ? "The diversity of chipmunks." He is not joking. He cares about newts. If asked, he does an excellent imitation of a startled vole. He has opinions about beetles...The new field guide , already praised by outdoor connoisseurs as a naturalist's bible, begins with "Small Fungi growing on Wood" and ends with stars. It is small enough to slip in your pocket but includes 1,700 species of flowers, trees, bugs, frogs, snails, skinks, birds, fish, rodents. It took him six years. The world needs more of this --this kind of sustained , informed, deep gee-whizdom...Laws painted every wildflower in his book from sketches in the field.The same with the birds, except for the great horned owl which he kept missing."We have this idea that all robins, for example, look the same," says Laws. "But they don't. Any more than collies look alike or all humans. it's because we are not looking hard enough."... When he was a boy hiking on the John Muir Trail, he dreamed of creating the perfect field guide, not a guide made by experts, but a book by an enthusiast. " My criteria for inclusion in the book:Either it is so common you'll trip over it all the time. Or not so common-- maybe it is just some subtle little thing, but they are so stunning or their story is so great, I had to include it," he says. Why? "Because the more people fall in love with the diversity of life, the more people will fight to protect it," Laws says. " ...The point really is not to identify a creature or a plant and move on. The point is to learn the story." --WASHINGTON POST, William Booth, Sunday Jan. 13,2008
Laws was so determined to make it easy for people to use this gude, he crammed a wide range of species into one book so hikers and backpackers would find it easy to take with them. Then he arranged it by species and primary characteristics so, from the inside cover, they can flip quickly to the pages that cover the plant or animal they've seen for a quick identification. Laws' stunning illustrations are accompanied by observations and requests, like on page 309: Keep an eye out for the wolverine, now feared extinct. --The San Francisco Chronicle
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With more than 2,800 original watercolor illustrations, John Muir Laws has masterfully catalogued over 1,700 species of Sierra trees, wildflowers, ferns, fungi, lichens, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals, insects, and other small animals. The guide is designed for quick and easy use in the field. Color tabs and a unique system of keys and organization assist in the quick identification of the living things encountered along the trail, while Laws s illustrations capture the feeling of plants and animals with detail critical for their classification.
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He took his first hike into the Sierra Nevada, the landscape of his obsession, while still in the womb. His parents named him John Muir Laws. He once spent a week searching for a single perfect orchid to paint. He says " I am constantly amazed by things" Such as ? "The diversity of chipmunks." He is not joking. He cares about newts. If asked, he does an excellent imitation of a startled vole. He has opinions about beetles...The new field guide , already praised by outdoor connoisseurs as a naturalist's bible, begins with "Small Fungi growing on Wood" and ends with stars. It is small enough to slip in your pocket but includes 1,700 species of flowers, trees, bugs, frogs, snails, skinks, birds, fish, rodents. It took him six years. The world needs more of this --this kind of sustained , informed, deep gee-whizdom...Laws painted every wildflower in his book from sketches in the field.The same with the birds, except for the great horned owl which he kept missing."We have this idea that all robins, for example, look the same," says Laws. "But they don't. Any more than collies look alike or all humans. it's because we are not looking hard enough."... When he was a boy hiking on the John Muir Trail, he dreamed of creating the perfect field guide, not a guide made by experts, but a book by an enthusiast. " My criteria for inclusion in the book:Either it is so common you'll trip over it all the time. Or not so common-- maybe it is just some subtle little thing, but they are so stunning or their story is so great, I had to include it," he says. Why? "Because the more people fall in love with the diversity of life, the more people will fight to protect it," Laws says. " ...The point really is not to identify a creature or a plant and move on. The point is to learn the story." --WASHINGTON POST, William Booth, Sunday Jan. 13,2008
Laws was so determined to make it easy for people to use this gude, he crammed a wide range of species into one book so hikers and backpackers would find it easy to take with them. Then he arranged it by species and primary characteristics so, from the inside cover, they can flip quickly to the pages that cover the plant or animal they've seen for a quick identification. Laws' stunning illustrations are accompanied by observations and requests, like on page 309: Keep an eye out for the wolverine, now feared extinct. --The San Francisco Chronicle
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With more than 2,800 original watercolor illustrations, John Muir Laws has masterfully catalogued over 1,700 species of Sierra trees, wildflowers, ferns, fungi, lichens, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals, insects, and other small animals. The guide is designed for quick and easy use in the field. Color tabs and a unique system of keys and organization assist in the quick identification of the living things encountered along the trail, while Laws s illustrations capture the feeling of plants and animals with detail critical for their classification.
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