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The author of The Botany of Desire draws on his gardening experiences to explore attitudes toward nature and wilderness, environmental questions, and what gardening teaches about the borders between nature and culture. Reprint.
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Wild at heart : America's turbulent relationship with nature, from exploitation to redemption
by Alice B Outwater
"In the tradition of The World Without Us, a beautifully written and ultimately hopeful history of our relationship with the natural world Nature on the brink? Maybe not. With so much bad news in the world, we forget how much environmental progress has been made. In a narrative that reaches from Native American tribal practices to public health and commercial hunting, Wild at Heart shows how western attitudes towards nature have changed dramatically in the last five hundred years. The Chinook gave thanksfor King Salmon's gifts. The Puritans saw Nature as a frightening wilderness, full of "uncooked meat." With the industrial revolution, nature was despoiled and simultaneously celebrated as a source of the sublime. With little forethought and great greed,Americans killed the last passenger pigeon, wiped out the old growth forests, and dumped so much oil in the rivers that they burst into flame. But in the span of a few decades, our relationship with nature has evolved to a more sophisticated sense of interdependence that brings us full circle. Across the US, people are taking individual action, planting native species and fighting for projects like dam removal and wolf restoration. Cities are embracing nature, too. Humans can learn from the past, and ourchoices today will determine whether nature survives. Like the First Nations, all nations must come to deep agreement that nature needs protection. This compelling book reveals both how we got here and our own and nature's astonishing ability to mutuallyregenerate"
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Ecology of a Cracker childhood
by Janisse Ray
Chronicles the author's childhood in the rural forests of Georgia, her fundamentalist upbringing, and her battle to save the longleaf pine ecosystem of Florida and Georgia
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Earth : The Definitive Visual Guide
by James F Luhr
Featuring specially commissioned 3-D digital artwork, this ultimate guide to our planet describes more than 400 of the Earth's most fascinating features, explains the scientific processes that govern our world, and examines the complex relationship between humans and the natural environment.
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The nature fix : why nature makes us happier, healthier, and more creative
by Florence Williams
An investigation into the restorative benefits of nature draws on cutting-edge research and the author's explorations with international nature therapy programs to examine the relationship between nature and human cognition, mood and creativity. By the award-winning author of Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History.
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Exploring wild Alabama : a guide to the state's publicly accessible natural areas
by Kenneth M. Wills
"Exploring Wild Alabama is a much-needed guidebook to both well-known places and hidden gems of one of the most beautiful and biodiverse states of the union. From the rocky outcrops of the Appalachian plateaus in the northeast to the sugar-white beaches and teal waters of Dauphin Island and the Gulf of Mexico in the southwest, Alabama offers a wealth of remarkable and valuable sites to explore by foot, by canoe, by bicycle, or by auto"
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Half-earth : our planet's fight for life
by Edward O. Wilson
A conclusion to the trilogy by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the National Book Award-finalist The Meaning of Human Existence argues that humanity must consider the histories of millions of other Earth species and increase the planet's regions of natural reserves in order to prevent future mass extinctions.
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