| Edition |
First Torrey House Press edition. |
| Description |
xii, 265 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"November 2017"--Title page verso. |
| Contents |
The gods are not large / Jane Hirshfield -- Our deepest affinity / Thomas Lowe Fleischner -- The silence of the forest as our lover / Gary Paul Nabhan -- Branching out / Nalini Nadkarni -- Plants, health, and people of the forbidden mountains / Alberto Búrquez -- Sunday school / Gwen Annette Heistand -- Flirting dragonflies / Brooke Williams -- The blue gate / Stephen Trimble -- New words, lost words, and terms of endearment / Laura Sewall -- Serendipity, sculpture, and story / Edie Dillon -- Spark and fire / Sarah Juniper Rabkin -- Nature. Love. Medicine. Healing. Reciprocity. Generosity. / Mitchell Thomashow -- City of loves / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- The path of healing / Judith Lydeamore -- Biophilia at my bedside / Elisabeth Tova Bailey -- Murtle Lake Rx : a dose of wind and rain / Saul Weisberg -- Meeting the gray fox / Pablo Deustua Jochamowitz -- Environmental generational amnesia / Peter H. Kahn, Jr. -- Sense of place before and after race / Lauret Savoy -- Dark love / Jana Richman -- In the form of birds / Melanie Bishop -- Heal-all / Robin Wall Kimmerer -- Falling in love with the Earth / Thich Nhat Hanh -- Maple / Jane Hirshfield. |
| Summary |
"This book unabashedly declares that love for our biologically and culturally diverse world is a much-needed virtue, an essential need. Collectively, the twenty-three authors--ecologists, psychologists, and educators, poets and artists, the healers and the healed--explore the notion that practicing attentive natural history remains an essential pathway to sanity and health, for both individuals and societies. The book's fundamental premise is that humans are literally born to practice natural history, and are physically, psychologically, and socially healthier when we do."--Page 4 of cover. |
| Subject |
Natural history -- United States.
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Health.
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Wilderness areas -- United States.
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United States -- Description and travel.
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NATURE -- Essays.
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Health. (OCoLC)fst00952743
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Natural history. (OCoLC)fst01034268
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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Wilderness areas. (OCoLC)fst01175164
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Travel writing.
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Essays.
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Travel writing. (OCoLC)fst01919983
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| Added Author |
Fleischner, Thomas Lowe, 1954- editor.
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| Added Title |
Essays on wildness and wellness |
| ISBN |
9781937226770 paperback |
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1937226778 paperback |
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9781937226787 electronic book |
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