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Ackerman, Diane, 1948- author.

Dawn light : dancing with cranes and other ways to start the day / Diane Ackerman.

First edition.

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2009]

©2009

xiv, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm

A celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalist explores a year of dawns, drawing on sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art history, poetry, organic farming, and beekeeping.

Monet, Claude, 1840-1926.

Sei Shōnagon, approximately 967-

Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849.

Seasons -- Psychological aspects.

Nature -- Psychological aspects.

Human beings -- Effect of environment on.

Meditations.

Satisfaction.

Palm Beach (Fla.)

Ithaca (N.Y.)

Meditations.

British Library not licensed to copy 0.

Prologue: a dawning pleasure -- Dawn mother -- Dawn among the palms -- Just a little rain -- A calamity of cranes -- The lost night sky -- Forget bats -- Some tales we tell -- Venus observed -- In the spirit of Monet -- Festivals of the dawn -- Troubadours -- Missive -- Red dawns and fields of green -- Time races Dawn's many faces -- Dangerous dawn -- In the spirit of Sei Shōnagon -- Dawn in the garden of cosmic reflection --Matins with the neighbors (two-legged and four) -- The solstice bird -- In the spirit of Hokusai -- On the ledge of the morning -- Dew drop in -- Where it's summer -- Woodpecker dawn -- Glory days -- The murmuring of innumerable bees -- Honeycombing -- An angle on Archimedes -- A little Sabbath with the sun -- Autumn dawn -- False dawn -- Nothing doing -- In the vase of the universe -- Clever as clever -- Field guides -- Where it's winter -- Water, water everywhere -- Crystals -- One bad rooster spoils the barnyard -- After hours -- The silence that is not there and the silence that is -- Time well spent.

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