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Table of Contents

Guide

WRITTEN BY

RACHEL WILLIAMS

ILLUSTRATED BY

FREYA HARTAS

mindful

moments

in

nature

NEW YORK

What is this life if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare?

No time to stand beneath the boughs,

And stare as long as sheep or cows:

No time to see, when woods we pass,

Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:

No time to see, in broad daylight,

Streams full of stars, like skies at night:

No time to turn at Beautys glance,

And watch her feet, how they can dance:

No time to wait till her mouth can

Enrich that smile her eyes began?

A poor life this if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

Leisure by W.H. Davies

CONTENTS

Slow down. Stop. Listen.

In the early morning light, a bird outside is calling, Good morning!" He joins in the dawn chorus,

which sings their song all year. In a tree next door, the melody sends a little owl

to sleepa gentle lullaby after his long night hunt. And as the owl drifts off, a ladybug drinks

the last of the morning dew...

All around us, nature is turning, growing... and working wonders. Every day, hour by hour,

magical transformations happen right in front of our eyes. But its not always easy to see them.

This book is filled with natures ordinary events. Told like a story, some of these events happen

slowly, over days or weekslike a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis or a squirrel burying acorns

for the winter. Other things happen in a momentlike a sunrise or a cloud forming.

Enjoy each of them, paused just long enough to watch them unfold. And then go outside,

to see what you find when you take the time to slow down.

When the bee visits the next flower, this pollen is rubbed off onto the

stigmathe female part of the flower. At this moment, pollination

occurs. Watch this happen in a bright, springtime garden...

Without pollination, plants cant reproduce and

fruit cant grow! When a bee collects nectar from a

flowering plant, some pollen from the stamenthe male

part of the flowersticks to the hairs on its body.

It

could

be

said

that

a

bees

most

important

job

is

to

pollinate

flowers.

Different types

of bees are

attracted to

different types

of flowers.

The bee uses her antennae to

find the gardens sweetest flowers.

A BEE

pollinates a flower

And shes off, in search of

another flower...

She flies to another flower.

As she lands and tucks into the

nectar, the pollen rubs off her

legs onto the flowers stigma.

Peering

into the

shallow

nectar

of the

flower,

the

bee dips

her tongue

in and

drinks

deeply.

As she drinks, she brushes against

the stamens of the flower and

pollen sticks to her legs.

Ready to explore the rest of the garden,

the bee looks up to scout her next meal.

The

flower is

now pollinated!

DEW COLLECTS ON A LEAF

Nothing

welcomes

a

new

day

like

dew

collecting

on

a

leaf.

Before dawn, the leaf has cooled down in the cold air. Moisture in the air turns from gas into liquid water. As the Sun rises, it takes a

while for the moisture to turn back into gas, so droplets of wateror dewcollect on the cold leaf. Watch this happen at dawn...

In the cool morning air, leaves

and other plants with flat surfaces

collect tiny droplets of water.

You might think the cause could be an

overnight rain shower

but its actually

because of something called condensation.

Day is breaking, and the leaves

of this garden are looking up to

the sunrise.

When the temperature

drops, this dew can

turn to ice

which we

also call frost.

The leaves have been cooled by the cold night air.

Moisture in the cold air turns into liquid and

collects on the leaf as dew.

Most dew drops tend to slide down to the tips of the leaves.

A big droplet forms and

falls off the leaf.

DRIP!

The day has begun, and the leaf is nearly dry... until tomorrow.

A BUTTERFLY

EMERGES FROM A CHRYSALIS

You

may

have

heard

stories

about

a

very

hungry

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