Crossroads of the Natural World

Crossroads of the Natural World
Title Crossroads of the Natural World PDF eBook
Author Tom Earnhardt
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 327
Release 2013-04-22
Genre Nature
ISBN 146960700X

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In this richly illustrated love letter to the wild places and natural wonders of North Carolina, Tom Earnhardt, writer and host of UNC-TV's Exploring North Carolina and lifelong conservationist, seamlessly ties deep geological time and forgotten species from our distant past to the unparalleled biodiversity of today. With varied topography and a climate that is simultaneously subtropical, temperate, and subarctic, he shows that North Carolina is a meeting place for living things more commonly found far to the north and south. Highlighting the ways in which the state is a unique ecological crossroads, Earnhardt's research, insightful writing, and stunning photography will both teach and inspire. Crossroads of the Natural World invites readers to engage a variety of topics, including the impacts of invasive species, the importance of forested buffers along our rivers, the role of naturalists, and the challenges facing the state in a time of climate change and sea-level rise. By sharing his own journey of more than sixty years, Earnhardt entices North Carolinians of every age to explore the natural diversity of our state.

Virginia Woolf and the Natural World

Virginia Woolf and the Natural World
Title Virginia Woolf and the Natural World PDF eBook
Author Kristin Czarnecki
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 259
Release 2011
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0983533903

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Virginia Woolf and the Natural World is a compilation of thirty-one essays presented at the twentieth annual international conference on Virginia Woolf. This volume explores Woolf's complex engagement with the natural world, an engagement that was as political as it was aesthetic. The diversity of topics within this collection-ecofeminism, the nature of time, the nature of the self, nature and sporting, botany, climate, and landscape, just to name a few-fosters a deeper understanding of the nature of nature in Woolf's works. Contributors include Bonnie Kime Scott, Carrie Rohman, Diana Swanson, Elisa Kay Sparks, Beth Rigel Daugherty, Jane Goldman, and Diane Gillespie, among many others from the international community of Woolf scholars.

Questions & Answers about the Natural World

Questions & Answers about the Natural World
Title Questions & Answers about the Natural World PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2000
Genre Animals
ISBN 9781405417013

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Contents includes information on sea creatures, birds, polar animals, reptiles, creepy crawlies, desert animals, jungle animals, and endangered animals.

The Love of Nature and the End of the World

The Love of Nature and the End of the World
Title The Love of Nature and the End of the World PDF eBook
Author Shierry Weber Nicholsen
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 236
Release 2003-02-28
Genre Science
ISBN 9780262250436

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A psychological exploration of how the love of nature can coexist in our psyches with apathy toward environmental destruction. Virtually everyone values some aspect of the natural world. Yet many people are surprisingly unconcerned about environmental issues, treating them as the province of special interest groups. Seeking to understand how our appreciation for the beauty of nature and our indifference to its destruction can coexist in us, Shierry Weber Nicholsen explores dimensions of our emotional experience with the natural world that are so deep and painful that they often remain unspoken. The Love of Nature and the End of the World is a gathering of meditations and collages. Its evocations of our emotional attachment to the natural world and the emotional impact of environmental deterioration are meant to encourage individual and collective reflection on a difficult dilemma. Nicholsen draws on work in environmental philosophy and ecopsychology; the writings of psychoanalytic thinkers such as Wilfred Bion, Donald Meltzer, and D. W. Winnicott; and ideas from Buddhist and Sufi traditions. She shows how our emotional responses to the vulnerabilities of the natural world range from intense caring and compassion, through grief and outrage, to diffuse depression. Individual chapters focus on silence and the process whereby we move from the unspoken to the spoken, the love of nature, the "perceptual reciprocity" with the natural world to which we might mature, beauty in the human and natural realms, the psychological impact of the destruction of the natural world, and reflections on the future.

Art of the Natural World

Art of the Natural World
Title Art of the Natural World PDF eBook
Author Richard Rosenblum
Publisher
Pages 168
Release 2001
Genre Art
ISBN

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Essays by Valerie C. Doran, Richard Rosenblum.

Ancient Ethics and the Natural World

Ancient Ethics and the Natural World
Title Ancient Ethics and the Natural World PDF eBook
Author Barbara M. Sattler
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 0
Release 2023-08-31
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9781108813723

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This book explores a distinctive feature of ancient philosophy: the close relation between ancient ethics and the study of the natural world. Human beings are in some sense part of the natural world, and they live their lives within a larger cosmos, but their actions are governed by norms whose relation to the natural world is up for debate. The essays in this volume, written by leading specialists in ancient philosophy, discuss how these facts about our relation to the world bear both upon ancient accounts of human goodness and also upon ancient accounts of the natural world itself. The volume includes discussion not only of Plato and Aristotle, but also of earlier and later thinkers, with an essay on the Presocratics and two essays that discuss later Epicurean, Stoic, and Neoplatonist philosophers.

Shakespeare and the Natural World

Shakespeare and the Natural World
Title Shakespeare and the Natural World PDF eBook
Author Tom MacFaul
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 219
Release 2015-11-20
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1107117933

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This book explores the rich range of meanings that Shakespeare finds in the natural world, enabling new readings of his works.