For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world’s gifts. Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil 's new book aims to help introduce. Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. Get free shipping on World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments ISBN13:9781571313652 from TextbookRush at a great price. It can be helpful to focus on the wonder of the natural world when so much of what is happening around us feels out of our control. “What the peacock can do,” she tells us, “is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life.” The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindness the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. But no matter where she was transplanted―no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape―she was able to turn to our world’s fierce and funny creatures for guidance. As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. Arrives by Sat, Jan 28 Buy World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (Pre-Owned Hardcover 9781571313652) by Aimee.
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