woodlore

Adventures, common sense, philosophy, woodlore, respect for the environment and indigenous people, and * lots* of makin 'stuff: Two kids from disparate backgrounds living as "Indians" in the early 1900's.

Boing Boing: October 29, 2006 - November 4, 2006 Archives 2006

Any woodtroll who did not know his woodlore was liable to end up satisfying the tree's love of flesh for the bloodoak and the tarry vine were two of the greatest dangers in the dark and perilous Deepwoods.

Excerpt: Beyond The Deepwoods by Paul Stewart 2004

At home in Zanesville Grey was met with suspicion and distance; but at Dillon's Falls he communed with his shaggy mentor, learning woodlore and various fishing techniques.

Zane Grey, Romancing the West May, Stephen J. 1997

Kaylana leading the way, not from cowardice, but trusting her knowledge of woodlore to lead the others through the tangled night maze of forest at the fastest pace possible.

Villains by Necessity Forward, Eve 1995

No amount of skill or woodlore seemed able to help them, and they might have died there if Shea, in desperation, had not discovered that he possessed the ability to invoke the power of the Eifstones given him by the Druid Allanon-the same Elfstones she carried now.

The Elf Queen of Shannara Brooks, Terry 1992

He tried to put to use all the woodlore he had learned at the base.

The Time Traders Andre Norton 1958

Then with painted face and a feather in his hair he would proudly range the woods in his little kingdom and store up every scrap of woodlore he could find, invent or learn from his schoolmates.

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

In all were eighteen priests, four lay brothers, seven white servants, and twenty-three volunteers, unpaid helpers -- donnés, they were called, young men ardently religious, learning woodlore and the Indian language among the

Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom 1903

Scarlet Tanager ******* were, with their names, deeply impressed on his memory and added to his woodlore, though not altogether without a mixture of error.

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

But she could not be seen, as she was wise in woodlore and remained safely screened from men.

Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900