nature study

I’m writing about bird-watching here, but these same seven principles apply just as well to any form of nature study.

This is why his dances can feel a little bit like nature studies.

I adored a nature study series of picture books by Père Castor, which are sadly now out of print.

Only one work on the two programs is newish — “Branches,” a middling nature study created in 2017 — so the thrust turns out to be retrospective, a sampling of four decades of repertory.

Marian Engstrom is a self-admitted “conservation gypsy,” moving from one nature study to the next in her quest to save the environment.