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xi, 282 pages ; 24 cm |
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction -- Into the wildness / Gavin Van Horn -- Wisdom of the wild. Wildfire news / Gary Snyder -- Conundrum and continuum: one man's wilderness, from a ditch to the dark divide / Robert Michael Pyle -- No word / Enrique Salmón -- The edge of anomaly / Curt Meine -- Order versus wildness / Joel Salatin -- Biomimicry: business from the wild / Margo Farnsworth -- Notes on "up at the basin" / David J. Rothman -- Working wild. Listening to the forest / Jeff Grignon and Robin Wall Kimmerer -- The working wilderness / Courtney White -- The hummingbird and the redcap / Devon G. Peña -- Losing wildness for the sake of wilderness: the removal of Drakes Bay Oyster Company / Laura Alice Watt -- Inhabiting the Alaskan wild / Margot Higgins -- Wilderness in four parts, or why we cannot mention my great-grandfather's name / Aaron Abeyta -- Urban wild. Wild black margins / Mistinguette Smith -- Healing the urban wild / Gavin Van Horn -- Building the civilized wild / Seth Magle -- Cultivating the wild on Chicago's South Side: stories of people and nature at Eden Place Nature Center / Michael Bryson and Michael Howard -- Toward an urban practice of the wild / John Tallmadge -- Planetary wild. The whiskered god of filth / Rob Dunn -- The akiing ethic: seeking ancestral wildness beyond Aldo Leopold's wilderness / John Hausdoerffer -- On the wild edge in Iceland / Brooke Hecht -- The story isn't over / Julianne Lutz Warren -- Cultivating the wild / Vandana Shiva -- Earth island: prelude to a eutopian history / Wes Jackson -- Epilogue -- Wild partnership: a conversation with Roderick Frazier Nash / John Hausdoerffer. |
Summary |
Whether referring to a place, a nonhuman animal or plant, or a state of mind, wild indicates autonomy and agency, a will to be, a unique expression of life. Yet two contrasting ideas about wild nature permeate contemporary discussions: either that nature is most wild in the absence of a defiling human presence, or that nature is completely humanized and nothing is truly wild. This book charts a different path. Exploring how people can become attuned to the wild community of life and also contribute to the well-being of the wild places in which we live, work, and play, Wildness brings together esteemed authors from a variety of landscapes, cultures, and backgrounds to share their stories about the interdependence of everyday human lifeways and wildness. As they show, far from being an all or nothing proposition, wildness exists in variations and degrees that range from cultivated soils to multigenerational forests to sunflowers pushing through cracks in a city alley. Spanning diverse geographies, these essays celebrate the continuum of wildness, revealing the many ways in which human communities can nurture, adapt to, and thrive alongside their wild nonhuman kin. From the contoured lands of Wisconsin's Driftless region to remote Alaska, from the amazing adaptations of animals and plants living in the concrete jungle to indigenous lands and harvest ceremonies, from backyards to reclaimed urban industrial sites, from microcosms to bioregions and atmospheres, manifestations of wildness are everywhere. With this book, we gain insight into what wildness is and could be, as well as how it might be recovered in our lives--and with it, how we might unearth a more profound, wilder understanding of what it means to be human. -- Provided by publisher. |
Subject |
Wilderness areas.
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Wilderness areas -- United States.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Wildlife conservation.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
(OCoLC)fst01034564
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Wilderness areas. (OCoLC)fst01175164
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Wildlife conservation. (OCoLC)fst01175253
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Added Author |
Van Horn, Gavin, editor.
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Hausdoerffer, John, editor.
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ISBN |
9780226444666 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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022644466X (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780226444833 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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022644483X (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780226444970 (e-book) |
Standard No. |
40027275877 |
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