Inspired by his ranger days in Rocky Mountain National Park more than forty five years ago as well as more recent rambles, Richard Fleck has created these descriptive essays that take readers from shimmering desert heat to snowy summits. Fleck has expanded his acclaimed book Breaking Through the Clouds to create a new book that concentrates on the intermountain American West.
This edition includes counterpoint experiences in the desert, canyon lands, and dry prairie far below the summits of the lofty peaks, such as Death Valley, Grand Gulch, Grand Canyon, and the Great Sand Dunes. Mountains and surrounding deserts should not be separated. These writers used powerfully evocative and galvanizing metaphors for nature, metaphors that Daniel J. First published in Scientists and other keen observers of the natural world sometimes make or write a statement pertaining to scientific activity that is destined to live on beyond the brief period of time for which it was intended.
This book serves as a collection of these statements from great philosophers and thought—influencers of science, past and present. It allows the reader quickly to find relevant quotations or citations. Organized thematically and indexed alphabetically by author, this work makes readily available an unprecedented collection of approximately 18, quotations related to a broad range of scientific topics.
An essential collection of criticism on the leading nature writers of today. Sixty-five contributions discuss historical and contemporary nature writing--nonfiction, fiction, and poetry--in the US and Canada; Europe; Asia and the Pacific; Africa and Arab nations; and Latin America. Scientists and other keen observers of the natural world sometimes make or write a statement pertaining to scientific activity that is destined to live on beyond the brief period of time for which it was intended.
This book serves as a collection of these statements from great philosophers and thought—influencers of science, past and present. It allows the reader quickly to find relevant quotations or citations. Organized thematically and indexed alphabetically by author, this work makes readily available an unprecedented collection of approximately 18, quotations related to a broad range of scientific topics.
Sixty-five contributions discuss historical and contemporary nature writing--nonfiction, fiction, and poetry--in the US and Canada; Europe; Asia and the Pacific; Africa and Arab nations; and Latin America. An additional section considers the literature thematically and cross-culturally. Sample topics include the mountain in 20th- century French literature, woman and the land in the Romanian agrarian novel, war and environment in African literature, and science fiction as environmental literature.
Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc. More than twenty-five years after his death, iconic writer and nature activist Edward Abbey — remains an influential presence in the American environmental movement. This substantially expanded edition of Belden C. Lane's Landscapes of the Sacred includes a new introductory chapter that offers three new interpretive models for understanding American sacred space.
Lane maintains his approach of interspersing shorter and more personal pieces among full-length essays that explore how Native American, early French and Spanish, Puritan New England, and Catholic Worker traditions has each expressed the connection between spirituality and place.
A new section at the end of the book includes three chapters that address methodological issues in the study of spirituality, the symbol-making process of religious experience, and the tension between place and placelessness in Christian spirituality.
The American people, inhabiting a mental landscape shaped by their attempts to plant roots and to break free, are no exception. This edition includes counterpoint experiences in the desert, canyon lands, and dry prairie far below the summits of the lofty peaks, such as Death Valley, Grand Gulch, Grand Canyon, and the Great Sand Dunes. Mountains and surrounding deserts should not be separated. Conserving Words Author : Daniel J. These writers used powerfully evocative and galvanizing metaphors for nature, metaphors that Daniel J.
This book serves as a collection of these statements from great philosophers and thought—influencers of science, past and present. It allows the reader quickly to find relevant quotations or citations.
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