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Parables From Nature

Parables From Nature

Explore the intricate relationship between humanity and the natural world as you uncover timeless lessons woven into tales of the environment and its creatures. These narratives often reflect the moral and ethical dilemmas we face, inviting contemplation on our place within the broader tapestry of life. Each week, our podcast presents a new complete audiobook, offering a diverse range of perspectives, time periods, and storytelling styles. This isn't a single narrative but a collection of stories that provoke thought and inspire deeper understanding. Listen for the curiosity, insight, and the joy of discovering how nature's stories mirror our own. New books are added weekly. Check out more shows at solgoodmedia.com.This show includes AI-generated content.

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Within and Without A Dramatic Poem-George MacDonald 4 hr 26 min 40 sec
Weird Tales Double Feature Kull of Valusia-Robert E. Howard 1 hr 31 min 55 sec
Sonnets-Christina Rossetti 1 hr 4 min 43 sec
Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)-Anna Sewell 6 hr 15 min 18 sec
Lore of Proserpine-Maurice Henry Hewlett 6 hr 10 min 40 sec
Flowers from the Garden of Saint Francis for Every Day of the Year-Saint Francis of Assisi 2 hr 4 min 41 sec
Cave Twins-Lucy Fitch Perkins 2 hr 5 min 41 sec
Race Of The Swift-Edwin Carlile Litsey 2 hr 6 min 44 sec
Precepts in Practice; or, Stories Illustrating the Proverbs-Charlotte Maria Tucker (A. L. O. E.) 4 hr 57 min 2 sec
Winnie-the-Pooh (Version 4)-A. A. Milne 2 hr 32 min 53 sec
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories-Ambrose Bierce 2 hr 1 min 32 sec
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2-Songling Pu 9 hr 50 min 46 sec
Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selections from Volume 1)-Songling Pu 5 hr 28 min 14 sec
On the Incarnation-Athanasius of Alexandria 2 hr 20 min 51 sec
Machine-Room Chants-Tom Maguire 51 min 32 sec
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 06-Various 3 hr 26 min 41 sec
Sunken Garden and Other Poems-Walter de la Mare 38 min 7 sec
Moon Endureth Tales and Fancies-John Buchan 7 hr 59 min 16 sec
Astrophel and Stella-Sir Philip Sidney 1 hr 40 min 54 sec
Augustan Books of Modern Poetry Emily Brontë-Emily Brontë 47 min 47 sec
Winter Evening Tales-Amelia E. Barr 7 hr 25 min 1 sec
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children-Mabel Powers 3 hr 2 min 27 sec
Sonnets-Edna St. Vincent Millay 55 min 24 sec
Man and Nature on the Broads-Arthur Henry Patterson 6 hr 31 min 35 sec
Canada and Other Poems-Thomas Frederick Young 3 hr 3 min 38 sec
Notes of An East Coast Naturalist-Arthur Henry Patterson 8 hr 48 min 9 sec
Ebony and Crystal-Clark Ashton Smith 3 hr 46 min 17 sec
Bay A Book of Poems-D. H. Lawrence 31 min 22 sec
Ikom Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria-Elphinstone Dayrell 5 hr 56 min 34 sec
Florida Trails-Winthrop Packard 7 hr 19 min 56 sec
Side-lights of Nature in Quill and Crayon-Tickner Edwardes 3 hr 58 min 19 sec
Canadian Fairy Tales-Cyrus Macmillan 5 hr 3 min 31 sec
Vision of Piers the Plowman (Warren translation)-William Langland 4 hr 37 min 50 sec
Tales of the Uneasy-Violet Hunt 9 hr 35 min 9 sec
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands-Mary Seacole 5 hr 58 min 44 sec
Letters of Travel-Rudyard Kipling 7 hr 45 min 1 sec
Myths and Legends of the Sioux-Marie L. McLaughlin 4 hr 49 min 10 sec
Tongues of Conscience-Robert Smythe Hichens 8 hr 43 min 35 sec
Fables of Pilpay-Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ 6 hr 46 min 33 sec
Letters from Mrs Palmerstone to Her Daughter, Volume One-Rachel Hunter 4 hr 37 min 13 sec
Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales - Frank R Stockton 5 hr 5 min 44 sec
Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains - Nathaniel Hawthorne 2 hr 22 min 54 sec
Creatures of the Abyss - Murray Leinster 5 hr 36 min 14 sec
American in the Making the Life Story of an Immigrant - Marcus Eli Ravage 8 hr 41 min 16 sec
Parables From Nature - Part 2 - Margaret Gatty 5 hr 29 min 45 sec
Parables From Nature - Part 1 - Margaret Gatty 5 hr 29 min 45 sec
Asgard Stories Tales from Norse Mythology - Mabel H Cummings Mary H Foster 2 hr 34 min 7 sec
Strange Voyage and Adventures of Domingo Gonsales to the World in the Moon - Francis Godwin 1 hr 34 min 54 sec
Parables From Nature - Part 1 - Margaret Gatty 5 hr 29 min 45 sec
Parables From Nature - Part 2 - Margaret Gatty 5 hr 29 min 45 sec
Arrows of Freethought - George William Foote 4 hr 22 min 34 sec
Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life - Luigi Cornaro 2 hr 11 min 37 sec
Weird Tales Presents Dark Stories of Stark Unreasoning Terror - Robert E Howard 6 hr 22 min 51 sec
Bird World A Bird Book for Children - Jenny H Stickney 4 hr 21 min 20 sec
Authentic Narrative of Some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars in the Life of John Newton - John Newton 3 hr 30 min 16 sec
Allan's Wife and Other Tales - H Rider Haggard 8 hr 15 min 38 sec
Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book IV - John Locke 9 hr 15 min 40 sec
Broken Shaft Tales in Mid-Ocean - Henry Norman 5 hr 51 min 18 sec
Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field - Tales They Told to a Fellow Correspondent - Henry William Fischer 6 hr 17 min 6 sec
Bransford Of Rainbow Range - Eugene Manlove Rhodes 5 hr 33 min 41 sec
Bacteria in Daily Life - Grace Coleridge Frankland 4 hr 46 min 12 sec
Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' - Roy Chapman Andrews 7 hr 53 min 34 sec
Basis Of Morality - Arthur Schopenhauer 7 hr 19 min 6 sec
Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales - Frank R Stockton 5 hr 5 min 44 sec
Cossack Fairy Tales - Robert Nisbet Bain 6 hr 27 min 51 sec
Eskimo Folk-Tales - Knud Rasmussen 4 hr 7 min 26 sec
Changed Man And Other Tales - Thomas Hardy 9 hr 32 min 4 sec
Chemical Phenomena in Life - Frederick Czapek 3 hr 40 min 53 sec
Andiron Tales - John Kendrick Bangs 2 hr 3 sec
Battle of Life - Charles Dickens 3 hr 28 min 48 sec
Strange Voyage and Adventures of Domingo Gonsales to the World in the Moon - Francis Godwin 1 hr 34 min 54 sec
Parables From Nature - Part 1 - Margaret Gatty 5 hr 29 min 45 sec
American Fairy Tales - L Frank Baum 2 hr 56 min 51 sec
Creatures That Time Forgot - Ray Bradbury 1 hr 51 min 25 sec
Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales - Frank R Stockton 5 hr 5 min 44 sec
Weird Tales Presents Asylum Atrocities - Various 5 hr 57 min 28 sec
Army Life in a Black Regiment - Thomas Wentworth Higginson 8 hr 40 min 1 sec
Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters - Susan Petigru King-Bowen 9 hr 22 min 28 sec
Agathos the Rocky Island and Other Sunday Stories and Parables - Samuel Wilberforce 4 hr 38 min 33 sec
Canadian Wonder Tales - Cyrus Macmillan 4 hr 30 min 33 sec
Early English Hero Tales - Jeannette Augustus Marks 2 hr 26 min 48 sec
Aunt Judy's Tales - Margaret Gatty 4 hr 46 min 55 sec
Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia 1861-1865 - Carlton McCarthy 4 hr 45 min 50 sec
Conduct of Life - Ralph Waldo Emerson 6 hr 3 min 14 sec
Carpenter's World Travels Alaska Our Northern Wonderland - Frank G Carpenter 8 hr 46 min 24 sec
Book of Fairy Tales - Sabine Baring-Gould 6 hr 54 min 20 sec
Weird Tales Presents Mad Science - Various 7 hr 25 min 10 sec
Ethical Engineer Deathworld 2 - Harry Harrison 4 hr 9 min 26 sec
Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals - David Hume 5 hr 46 min 4 sec
Botany The Story of Plant Life - Julia McNair Wright 5 hr 20 min 7 sec
African Jungle Tales - Carl Bender 1 hr 33 min 14 sec
Carpenter's World Travels Australia New Zealand and Some Other Islands of the South Seas - Frank G Carpenter 8 hr 10 min 28 sec
Parables From Nature - Part 1 - Margaret Gatty 5 hr 29 min 45 sec
Parables From Nature - Part 2 - Margaret Gatty 5 hr 29 min 45 sec
Episode 29 - Birds in the Nest - Parables From Nature 12 min 19 sec
Episode 28 - Cobwebs - Parables From Nature 21 min 31 sec
Episode 27 - Imperfect Instruments - Parables From Nature 41 min 28 sec
Episode 26 - Kicking - Parables From Nature 42 min 33 sec
Episode 25 - Night and Day - Parables From Nature 19 min 8 sec
Episode 24 - Gifts - Parables From Nature 21 min 10 sec
Episode 23 - The Light of Life - Parables From Nature 14 min 33 sec
Episode 22 - The General Thaw - Parables From Nature 21 min 11 sec
Episode 21 - Inferior Animals - Parables From Nature 46 min 32 sec
Episode 20 - The Deliverer - Parables From Nature 19 min 51 sec
Episode 19 - The Master of the Harvest - Parables From Nature 21 min 37 sec
Episode 18 - The Voices of the Earth - Parables From Nature 15 min 38 sec
Episode 17 - Purring When You're Pleased - Parables From Nature 13 min 20 sec
Episode 16 - Wereunto? - Parables From Nature 22 min 13 sec
Episode 15 - Red Snow - Parables From Nature 34 min 46 sec
Episode 14 - Mates in the Sunbeam - Parables From Nature 8 min 9 sec
Episode 13 - Not Lost, But Gone Before - Parables From Nature 31 min 14 sec
Episode 12 - Daily Bread - Parables From Nature 36 min 52 sec
Episode 11 - Active and Passive - Parables From Nature 37 min 52 sec
Episode 10 - The Law of the Wood - Parables From Nature 18 min 19 sec
Episode 9 - A Circle of Blessing - Parables From Nature 26 min 34 sec
Episode 8 - A Lesson of Hope - Parables From Nature 11 min 17 sec
Episode 7 - Waiting - Parables From Nature 19 min 49 sec
Episode 6 - The Light of Truth - Parables From Nature 12 min 53 sec
Episode 5 - Training and Restraining - Parables From Nature 14 min 1 sec
Episode 4 - Knowledge Not the Limit of Belief - Parables From Nature 17 min 59 sec
Episode 3 - The Unknown Land - Parables From Nature 20 min 38 sec
Episode 2 - The Law of Authority and Obedience - Parables From Nature 17 min 38 sec
Episode 1 - A Lesson of Faith - Parables From Nature 12 min 24 sec
Preface - Parables From Nature 5 min 32 sec
Book Trailer - Parables From Nature 44 sec

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