This is a book of stories and visions. It is a book of life and true spirituality and freedom. Anyone who considers themself to be one with the world or wishes to become so should read this book.

This book is great. I read this book recently and decided to make a miniature zoo. The books step by step instructions on building and managing are great. Everyone should read this book.

This is a great book. You should defiantly read it. It inspired me to try to make a miniature zoo.

Do you love animals? Do you have a bit of extra time and are willing to sacrifice some elbow grease? Then you will enjoy this book. It is a comprehensive guide to keeping a small zoo in your boring backyard or in that old, empty room. If you choose to make your own miniature zoo, you won't regret it! It will provide many hours of interest and activity. If you choose not to build a zoo, you will still have earned valuable knowledge that can be used to keep an injured animal temporarily, if the need arises

A well written piece, so self explanatory that any novice easily use it. It is loaded with well drawn pictures and charts, and not only deals with subjects such as cloud recognition and rock collecting but how to capture bugs, trap building instructions are included.

It deals with just about every aspect of nature all at a very easy to read level for either the casual stroller to the serious student. So you can gather walk along and enjoy knowing what things are actually learn about a certain plants or animals. This is really fun book I take it along on road trips with my kids and have a blast at the beach collecting pill bugs and burrowing ghost shrimp. Now that I know there names I can tell everyone what they are.

When I first acquired this book many years ago, I was in awe of the attension to detail Vinson Brown poured into the book. It profoundly affected my ability to observe the world around me. Molecular biology has and is doing great things for humanity, however, it is through patient observation of the natural world we come to understand it. Vinson Brown's other books are very good as well, I would suggest collecting them all before they go out of print or further interest is lost in natural science.

Good luck on finding mineral sites using this guide. While the minerals may be in the areas indicated, the maps are so crude that the likelihood of your finding the sites is very poor. I have tried using the guide for several years with almost no success.

Well worth what I paid for it. This book has lots of information and would make a good reference for the Geology of California.

The maps though, don't say what the major highways/roads are, so you'll need another map. I have the book Roadside Geology of North/Central California, and this book goes really well with it.

In some ways, Rocks and Minerals of California I think is more useful, despite the missing road ID. The book has sections of counties (not all but most) and minerals found in those areas. Also, quadrangle information, township/range locations of minerals is listed.

The Author says he was inspired from Mari Sandoz's book on Crazy Horse which is all fine and good but this has to be considered fiction--yet it is constantly cataloged as non-fiction. Please, researching this era is already tough enough. If you want a good book on Crazy Horse get Mari Sandoz's and if you want to balance another opinion on it get Larry McMurtry's book--who is critical of Sandoz. But if you still want to get it, you've been warned.

Wonderful and inspiring. Easy read of what might have been.

I certainly wasted my money on this one. No color photographs, only black and white drawings. Little useful information. Of no use to me at all.