Grinnell Scientific Nature Journal

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Grinnell Scientific Nature Journal provides direction in using the Grinnell Scientific Method to enable the reader to create detailed field notes and nature journals that will be valuable far into the future. 

Direct observation is the only way to gain a deep understanding of how the world works. Only being out there, in the Moon light or warmed by the Sun, watching, listening, smelling, tasting, and remembering, can we know our mother, the Earth. 

I share this quote, from the late Vine Deloria, Jr., in his book, The World We Used to Live In: 

“By anthology, the preliminary efforts by Indians to gain knowledge of the physical world through observation and inquiry may be understood as the aboriginal equivalent of high school and college education. People come to know a great deal by observation. Add to that the body of data the knowledge that was passed down in the stories told by the elders describing their experience—the habits and practices of the other creatures or their knowledge of reading the clouds and winds. At least in respect to their own environment, these people had considerably more knowledge that we do today” (page xxx-xxxi).