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Encountering Nature
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Author : Thomas Heyd
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-29
Encountering Nature written by Thomas Heyd and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-29 with Philosophy categories.
This book argues that an attentive encounter with nature is of key importance for the development of an environmentally appropriate culture. The fundamental idea is that the environmental degradation that we are increasingly experiencing is best conceived as the consequence of a cultural mismatch: our cultures seem not to be appropriate to the natural environment in which we move and on which we depend in thoroughgoing ways. In addressing this problem, Thomas Heyd weaves together a rich tapestry of perspectives on human interactions with the natural world, ranging from traditional modes of managing human communities that include the natural environment, to the consideration of poetic travelogues, ecological restoration and botanic gardens. The volume is divided into three parts, which respectively consider the relation of human beings to nature in terms of ethics, aesthetics and culture. It engages the current literature in each of these areas with the help of inter-disciplinary approaches, as well as on the basis of personal encounters with natural spaces and processes. The ultimate aim of this book is to make a contribution to the development of a cultural fabric that is suitable to the natural spaces and processes in which we may thrive, and on which we all depend as individuals and as a species.
Encountering Nature
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Author : J. Susan Isaacs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-03-29
Encountering Nature written by J. Susan Isaacs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-29 with Art categories.
Encountering The Past In Nature
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Author : Timo Myllyntaus
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2001
Encountering The Past In Nature written by Timo Myllyntaus and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Forests and forestry categories.
Annotation. Six essays by Finnish scholars (which accounts for some of the notes being in Finnish) discuss the "new" science of environmental history, issues and case studies of change over time in forested Northern Hemisphere zones due to natural and human forces, and Western conceptions of wilderness. The editors are with the U. of Helsinki, whose press first published the book in 1999. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.
Natural Encounters
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Author : Bruce M. Beehler
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-21
Natural Encounters written by Bruce M. Beehler and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-21 with Nature categories.
A twelve-month excursion through nature’s seasons as recounted by a lifetime naturalist In this “personal encyclopedia of nature’s seasons,” lifetime naturalist Bruce Beehler reflects on his three decades of encountering nature in Washington, D.C. The author takes the reader on a year-long journey through the seasons as he describes the wildlife seen and special natural places savored in his travels up and down the Potomac River and other localities in the eastern and central United States. Some of these experiences are as familiar as observing ducks on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., or as unexpected as collecting fifty-million-year-old fossils on a Potomac beach. Beyond our nation’s capital, Beehler describes trips to nature’s most beautiful green spaces up and down the East Coast that, he says, should be on every nature lover’s bucket list. Combining diary entries, riffs on natural subjects, field trips, photographs, and beautiful half-tone wash drawings, this book shows how many outdoor adventures are out there waiting in one’s own backyard. The author inspires the reader to embrace nature to achieve a more peaceful existence.
Seeing Nature
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Author : Paul Krafel
language : en
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Release Date : 1999
Seeing Nature written by Paul Krafel and has been published by Chelsea Green Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Nature categories.
Seeing Nature is a series of true stories or parables that offer tools for understanding relationships in the natural world. Many of the stories take the reader to wild landscapes, including canyons, tundra, and mountain ridges, while others contemplate the human-made world: water-diversion trenches and supermarket check-out lines. At one point, Krafel discovers a world in a one-inch-square patch of ordinary ground. Inspiring for parents and teachers seeking to encourage excitement about the positive role of people in nature, Krafel's work harkens to St. Exupery's The Little Prince, Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, and Jean Giono's The Man Who Planted Trees. As Barbara Damrosch has noted: [This book] is a gift.... With curiosity, wit, and a spare and graceful style, Krafel notes why birds in flocks land as they do, how islands can move upstream in a river, how kelp forests, swaying gently, break the force of the sea's power, how tundra plants create whole ecosystems on bare rock from mere specks of life. Yet there are no long-winded sermons about the woods, or cute anthropomorphizations of animals. The book's economical, unsentimental style is part of its originality. Paul Krafel's years as a park ranger afforded him time to walk and think--his job was to observe the world around him. He is now a teacher, creating a curriculum for young people that is built on a startlingly simple truth: The world around us is an extended conversation between "upward spirals"--nature in regenerative, procreative modes--and downward spirals toward entropy and disintegration. As nature refreshes and rebuilds, the downward spirals are overcome. Nature's process becomes the process of replenishing hope.
Encounters With Nature
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Author : Paul Shepard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Encounters With Nature written by Paul Shepard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Nature categories.
When The Wild Comes Leaping Up
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Author : David Suzuki
language : en
Publisher: Greystone Books
Release Date : 2003-07-01
When The Wild Comes Leaping Up written by David Suzuki and has been published by Greystone Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-01 with Nature categories.
A powerful collection of personal experiences with nature. In this eloquent collection, award-winning writers from the United States, Canada, the UK and Australia describe a personal encounter with the natural world that moved them, enhanced their understanding of nature, changed them, or was in some other way of prime importance to them. These essays describe childhood memories, everyday walks transformed into life-changing events, being in the grip of a great force, startling encounters with wild animals, and even one fantasy, and they are funny, sad, reflective, exciting, optimistic, pessimistic, nostalgic, and outlandish. Each one presents a singular experience of enlightenment, awe, passion, outrage, sadness, or exhilaration. All are beautifully written and powerfully felt.
Governing The Wild
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Author : Stephanie Rutherford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Governing The Wild written by Stephanie Rutherford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Ecotourism categories.
Take four emblematic American scenes: the Hall of Biodiversity at the American Museum of Natural History in New York; DisneyOCOs Animal Kingdom theme park in Orlando; an ecotour of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks; the film An Inconvenient Truth. Other than expressing a common interest in the environment, they seem quite dissimilar.And yet, as Governing the Wild makes clear, these sites are all manifestations of green governmentality, each seeking to define and regulate our understanding, experience, and treatment of nature. Stephanie Rutherford shows how the museum presents a scientized assessment of global nature under threat; the Animal Kingdom demonstrates that a corporation can successfully organize a biopolitical project; the ecotour, operating as a school for a natural aesthetic sensibility, provides a visual grammar of pristine national nature; and the film offers a toehold on a moral way of encountering nature. But one very powerful force unites the disparate OC truthsOCO of nature produced through these sites, and that, Rutherford tells us, is their debt to natureOCOs commodification.RutherfordOCOs analysis reveals how each site integrates nature, power, and profit to make the buying and selling of nature critical to our understanding and rescuing of it. The combination, she argues, renders other ways of encountering natureOCoparticularly more radically environmental waysOCounthinkable.
A Gentle Path Of Healing
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Author : Debby Havas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-03-25
A Gentle Path Of Healing written by Debby Havas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-25 with categories.
In her previous book, My Journey To Wholeness, Debby Havas, after being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, explores her childhood traumas and seeks answers to "why?". In A Gentle Path Of Healing, she seeks to answer still another question - "What is it about Nature that is so profoundly healing?". She invites us to accompany her as she walks on the forest paths near her home, seeking answers. The beautiful lyric prose in this volume will escort you to a mountain top as if you had ascended it yourself . . . seat you beside a quiet stream, helping you let go of your stresses . . . place you on woodland paths and in meadows, where the scent of balsam and wild birdsong open and lift your spirit. On these lovely, powerful, mindful journeys, you will find yourself on A Gentle Path Of Healing.
Real Encounters Different Dimensions And Otherworldy Beings
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Author : Brad Steiger
language : en
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Release Date : 2013-10-01
Real Encounters Different Dimensions And Otherworldy Beings written by Brad Steiger and has been published by Visible Ink Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
An expert on the unexplained and paranormal research, Brad and Sherry Steiger turn their unique and remarkable talents to the bold storytelling of encounters with the unknown from throughout the ages. From mysterious strangers and unpredictable beings to weird behavior and paranormal phenomena, they investigate claims of visits from ghastly ghosts, otherworldly creatures, aliens living among us, phantoms, spirits and other accounts of encounters with the unexplained. Over 130 astounding accounts of Real Encounters with the supernatural, such as ... *Visitors from others worlds who have had Earth under surveillance for centuries, conducting their activities in secret-- even abducting humans for their own research and undeclared ends. *Members of secret societies who developed an advanced technology centuries ago which has been kept hidden in underground or undersea cities. *Time Travelers from the Future. Beings who claim to be our descendents from the future who are returning to study the true destiny of humankind. *Ghosts that haunt people, places, and things--and poltergeists that create havoc. *Beasties and monsters found in everyone’s worst nightmares--and sometimes in their campsites, fields, and yards. *Other Dimensional Visitors, Beings, Creatures, or Entities that come not from a faraway world in our solar system or any other, but from an adjacent space-time continuum existing on another vibrational/dimensional frequency or level. *Previously unknown, unidentified terrestrial life-forms, such beings as "sky-critters," "sky fish,” “rods,” and “orbs.” *As yet unknown physical energies that may be activated by the psyche, the unconscious level of the human mind. *Archetypal creatures and entities of the collective unconscious that are the result of energies that are accessible through dreams, meditations, and other states of altered consciousness. *Interactions with beings that have been dubbed elves, fairies, devas throughout the centuries. *The marvelous, creative facet of dreams. *Out-of-body mind-traveling through Time and Space. *Majestic beings who are described in the scriptures of many world religions as angels or demons.