Bibliograph

The way of natural history, edited by Thomas Lowe Fleischner

Type

Label

The way of natural history, edited by Thomas Lowe Fleischner

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The way of natural history

Oclc number

670481749

Responsibility statement

edited by Thomas Lowe Fleischner

Summary

"In this eclectic anthology, more than 20 scientists, nature writers, poets, and Zen practitioners, attest to how paying attention to nature can be a healing antidote to the hectic and harrying pace of our lives. Throughout this provocative and uplifting book, writers describe their various experiences in nature and portray how careful, and mindful, attention to the larger world around us brings rewarding and surprising discoveries. They give us the literary, personal, and spiritual stories that point a way toward calm and quiet for which many people today hunger. Contributors to The Power of Attention, The Power of Nature highlight their individual ways of paying attention to nature and discuss how their experiences have enlivened and enhanced their worlds. The anthology is a rich array of writings that provide models for interacting with the natural world, and together, create a call for the importance of natural history as a discipline"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

The supple deer / Jane Hirshfield -- The mindfulness of natural history / Thomas Lowe Fleischner -- Crazy about nature / John Tallmadge -- Noctambulism / Robert MacFarlane -- Perceiving a world of relations / Laura Sewall -- Sauntering toward Bethlehem / John Anderson -- The grounding of a marine biologist / Paul Dayton -- Lessons from 763 / Cristina Eisenberg -- Notes toward a natural history of dams / R. Edward Grumbine -- Talking to wild things / Dave Foreman -- Eyes of the world / Sarah Juniper Rabkin -- The gardener gets arrested / Charles Goodrich -- Music and the natural world / Richard Thompson -- Becoming a neighbor / Stephen C. Trombulak -- Long silent affair / Wren Farris -- Bear sign (on joyous afternoon) / Kathleen Dean Moore -- Yard birds / Ken Lamberton -- Maintenance / Robert Aitken -- A nat'ral histerrical feller in an unwondering age / Robert Michael Pyle -- Attending to the beautiful mess of the world / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Witness to the rain / Robin Wall Kimmerer -- Mind in the forest / Scott Russell Sanders

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