SEASONS OF THE WILD
With a Foreword by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Chapters Publishing, 1995 (out of print)

"Outside your window, in your own backyard, at your local pond or beach or park, on city streets and sometimes even inside your house, plants and animals are doing something incredibly interesting and wholly unexpected. Houseflies are washing their eyes with their hands and tasting their food with their feet. Wild turkeys are landing on sidewalks beside parked cars. Spiders are weaving intricate designs falsely advertising flowers to nectar-eating insects—the silken equivalent of a diner's neon "EATS," which, of course, is what the spider then does. These chapters are intended as a guide to some of these ordinary and astonishing events, to suggest new ways to observe and begin to think about the near-at-hand creatures, forces, behaviors and activities that are often overlooked."
—from the Introduction to Nature's Everyday Mysteries.

Both these books are collections of Montgomery's essays from Nature Journal, the column she has been writing for science section of The Boston Globe for more than 10 years. Although out of print, both books are still available at some bookstores and libraries. Publishers please note: the rights to these books have reverted to the author, who also owns rights to all columns written after Seasons of the Wild.

REVIEWS AND COMMENT:

"This delightful series of essays….is a mine of information. It has made me far better informed about the diversity of life around my own home, things that I had taken for granted…Read Sy Montgomery and enjoy!"
—Roger Tory Peterson, from the foreword to Nature's Everyday Mysteries.

"If ever a nonfiction book about nature was a page turner, it's this one."
—The London Ontario Free Press.

"We need people such as Sy Montgomery…to remind us that the natural world is rich and fascinating, and that we are not alien to it but are entirely capable of knowing it in all its wonder."
—Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, from the foreword to Seasons of the Wild.