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Author : Jim Dale Vickery
Publisher : NorthWord Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9781559714358
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Wilderness Visionaries written by Jim Dale Vickery and published by NorthWord Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce Babbitt
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597261513
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (972 download)
Download or read book Cities in the Wilderness written by Bruce Babbitt and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2007-08-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant, gracefully written, and important new book, former Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona Bruce Babbitt brings fresh thought--and fresh air--to questions of how we can build a future we want to live in. We've all experienced America's changing natural landscape as the integrity of our forests, seacoasts, and river valleys succumbs to strip malls, new roads, and subdivisions. Too often, we assume that when land is developed it is forever lost to the natural world--or hope that a patchwork of local conservation strategies can somehow hold up against further large-scale development. In Cities in the Wilderness, Bruce Babbitt makes the case for why we need a national vision of land use. We may have a space program, he points out, but here at home we don't have an open-space policy that can balance the needs for human settlement and community with those for preservation of the natural world upon which life depends. Yet such a balance, the author demonstrates, is as remarkably achievable as it is necessary. This is no call for developing a new federal bureaucracy; Babbitt shows instead how much can be--and has been--done by making thoughtful and beneficial use of laws and institutions already in place. A hallmark of the book is the author's ability to match imaginative vision with practical understanding. Babbitt draws on his extensive experience to take us behind the scenes negotiating the Florida Everglades restoration project, the largest ever authorized by Congress. In California, we discover how the Endangered Species Act, still one of the most effective laws governing land use, has been employed to restore regional habitat. In the Midwest, we see how new World Trade Organization regulations might be used to help restore Iowa's farmlands and rivers. As a key architect of many environmental success stories, Babbitt reveals how broad restoration projects have thrived through federal- state partnership and how their principles can be extended to other parts of the country. Whether writing of land use as reflected in the Gettysburg battlefield, the movie Chinatown, or in presidential political strategy, Babbitt gives us fresh insight. In this inspiring and informative book, Babbitt sets his lens to panoramic--and offers a vision of land use as grand as the country's natural heritage.
Author : Frederick Harold Swanson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781607814047
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Where Roads Will Never Reach written by Frederick Harold Swanson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Areas of the Rocky Mountains of Idaho and Montana are some of the most important remaining examples of American wilderness. These areas have been preserved because of citizens who stood against private and government plans to build roads and dams for timber and hydropower projects and to diminish wildlife habitat. Where Roads Will Never Reach tells the stories of hunters, anglers, outfitters, scientists, and other concerned citizens who devoted themselves to protecting remnant wild lands and ecosystems in the northern Rockies. Beginning in the 1940s and 1950s, as encroaching roads, dams, and clearcuts degraded habitat for native trout, salmon, grizzly bears, and other mammals large and small, these alarmed men and women took action. Environmental historian Frederick Swanson argues that their heartfelt, eloquent message on behalf of wild creatures and the places they live helped boost the American wilderness movement to its current prominence"--
Author : Mark W. T. Harvey
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295989823
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)
Download or read book Wilderness Forever written by Mark W. T. Harvey and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Forest History Society's 2006 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award As a central figure in the American wilderness preservation movement in the mid-twentieth century, Howard Zahniser (1906-1964) was the person most responsible for the landmark Wilderness Act of 1964. While the rugged outdoorsmen of the earlyenvironmental movement, such as John Muir and Bob Marshall, gave the cause a charismatic face, Zahniser strove to bring conservation's concerns into the public eye and the preservationists' plans to fruition. In many fights to save besieged wild lands, he pulled together fractious coalitions, built grassroots support networks, wooed skittish and truculent politicians, and generated streams of eloquent prose celebrating wilderness. Zahniser worked for the Bureau of Biological Survey (a precursor to the Fish and Wildlife Service) and the Department of the Interior, wrote for Nature magazine, and eventually managed the Wilderness Society and edited its magazine, Living Wilderness. The culmination of his wilderness writing and political lobbying was the Wilderness Act of 1964. All of its drafts included his eloquent definition of wilderness, which still serves as a central tenet for the Wilderness Society: "an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." The bill was finally signed into law shortly after his death. Pervading his tireless work was a deeply held belief in the healing powers of nature for a humanity ground down by the mechanized hustle-bustle of modern, urban life. Zahniser grew up in a family of Methodist ministers, and although he moved away from any specific denomination, a spiritual outlook informed his thinking about wilderness. His love of nature was not so much a result of scientific curiosity as a sense of wonder at its beauty and majesty, and a wish to exist in harmony with all other living things. In this deeply researched and affectionate portrait, Mark Harvey brings to life this great leader of environmental activism.
Author : Satish Kumar
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1933392533
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (333 download)
Download or read book Visionaries written by Satish Kumar and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visionaries brings together the lives and works of 100 great men and women who offered inspiration, hope and healing. The 20th century was marked by wars, dictatorships and environmental destruction, yet many individuals kept alive the hope of a sane and sustainable future through their example, ideas and vision. Their influence helped to bring to end colonialism and imperialism, apartheid and authoritarian regimes, and they also helped to foster the resurgence of an ecological, holistic and spiritual vision that increasingly resonates in the world today. Visionaries includes articles about: _ world leaders: Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and The Dalai Lama _ spiritual figures: Krishnamurti, Desmond Tutu, Thomas Moore, and Thich Nhat Hanh _ writers: Wendell Berry, Kahlil Gibran, Aldo Leopold, and Arundhati Roy _ scientists: Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall and James Lovelock _ educators: Ivan Illich and Rabindranath Tagore _ economists: E. F. Schumacher and Muhammad Yunus _ ecological activists: Vandana Shiva, Terry Tempest Williams, and Wangari Maathai, among others within each category.
Author : Steven Foster
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451672403
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Book Of Vision Quest written by Steven Foster and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending numerous heritages, wisdoms, and teachings, this powerfully wrought book encourages people to take charge of their lives, heal themselves, and grow. Movingly rendered, The Book of the Vision Quest is for all who long for renewal and personal transformation. In this revised edition—with two new chapters and added tales from vision questers—Steven Foster recounts his experiences guiding contemporary seekers. He recreates an ancient rite of passage—that of “dying,” “passing through,” and “being reborn”—known as a vision quest. A sacred ceremony that culminates in a three-day, three-night fast, alone, in a place of natural power, the vision quest is a mystical, practical, and intensely personal journey of self-knowledge.
Author : Matthew Dalbey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146151083X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Regional Visionaries and Metropolitan Boosters written by Matthew Dalbey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an examination of two conflicting regional planning ideologies and the impact of this conflict on the development of two regional parkways. I hypothesize that regional parkways of the 1920s and 1930s emerged out of these two visions of regional planning - regionalism and metropolitanism. The regional view coalesced around the work of Benton MacKaye, Lewis Mumford, and the Regional Planning Association of America. The metropolitan viewpoint, while less definable, grew out of the market-oriented economic boosterism efforts associated with early twentieth century planning. This view found literal and philosophical support with Thomas Adams and the Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs. In an effort to flesh out the competing theories and the development of the regional parkway, I discuss the history of the Skyline Drive and the proposed Green Mountain Parkway. In addition to supplementing the planning history and theory literature, I try to inform on issues important to the contemporary planning profession. The regional visionaries viewed their regional work as a social reform effort. The metropolitanists wanted to tweak the market so as to provide for a minimized congestion and economic hardship for the greatest number of citizens. This "vision versus reality" still troubles the profession today, especially in the areas of sustainable development, growth management, and "smart growth. " Matthew Dalbey Jackson, Mississippi March 2002 Chapter 1 Decentralization and Regional Planning Practical and Ideological Problems 1.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Proceedings RMRS. written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Tobias
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873384834
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (848 download)
Download or read book A Vision of Nature written by Michael Tobias and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tobias examines the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean, the ascetics of Sinai and Tibet, and the Pure Land Buddhists. He introduces the reader to the Jains of India, whose lifestyle is one of the most ecologically balanced in all of human history. In profiling various artists of 19th-century Europe and America, Tobias discovers incisive continuities among such luminaries as British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Austrian impressionist Emilie Mediz-Pelikan, and American intimist painters Ralph Blakelock and George Inness.
Author : Oren Harman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022656990X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences written by Oren Harman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the conditions that foster true novelty and allow visionaries to set their eyes on unknown horizons? What have been the challenges that have spawned new innovations, and how have they shaped modern biology? In Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences, editors Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich explore these questions through the lives of eighteen exemplary biologists who had grand and often radical ideas that went far beyond the run-of-the-mill science of their peers. From the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who coined the word “biology” in the early nineteenth century, to the American James Lovelock, for whom the Earth is a living, breathing organism, these dreamers innovated in ways that forced their contemporaries to reexamine comfortable truths. With this collection readers will follow Jane Goodall into the hidden world of apes in African jungles and Francis Crick as he attacks the problem of consciousness. Join Mary Lasker on her campaign to conquer cancer and follow geneticist George Church as he dreams of bringing back woolly mammoths and Neanderthals. In these lives and the many others featured in these pages, we discover visions that were sometimes fantastical, quixotic, and even threatening and destabilizing, but always a challenge to the status quo.
Author : Chad Patrick Dawson
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Wilderness Management written by Chad Patrick Dawson and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written for wilderness and wildlands stewards and managers, wilderness advocates, and environmental educators everywhere, this revised fourth edition retains relevent material from from the first three editions and embraces new literature, research, legislation, policies, and approaches emerging in wilderness stewardship during the last decade." Back cover.
Author : Sally M. Miller
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826335302
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (353 download)
Download or read book John Muir written by Sally M. Miller and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New information on the life of the famed environmentalist presented in 2001 at the John Muir Institute, hosted by the John Muir Center.
Author : Bill Plotkin, PhD
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1608687015
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Journey of Soul Initiation written by Bill Plotkin, PhD and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soul initiation is an essential spiritual adventure that most of the world has forgotten — or not yet discovered. Here, visionary ecopsychologist Bill Plotkin maps this journey, one that has not been previously illuminated in the contemporary Western world and yet is vital for the future of our species and our planet. Based on the experiences of thousands of people, this book provides phase-by-phase guidance for the descent to soul — the dissolution of current identity; the encounter with the mythopoetic mysteries of soul; and the metamorphosis of the ego into a cocreator of life-enhancing culture. Plotkin illustrates each phase of this riveting and sometimes hazardous odyssey with fascinating stories from many people, including those he has guided. Throughout he weaves an in-depth exploration of Carl Jung's Red Book — and an innovative framework for understanding it.
Author : Gretel Ehrlich
Publisher : National Geographic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book John Muir written by Gretel Ehrlich and published by National Geographic. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this definitive photobiography, Ehrlich brings her award-winning grace & insight to the life of one of our nation's most prized environmental heroes--John Muir, a founder of the Sierra Club.
Author : John Henricksson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816636716
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (367 download)
Download or read book North Writers written by John Henricksson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000-04-25 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To early French explores it was Bois Forts, the Strong Woods. This land, sweeping north and west from Lake Superior's western shore, is primarily boreal forest, rivers, and lakes, with cliffs formed by prehistoric volcanoes and glacial ice. The lure of this land is the unifying force behind Henricksson's anthology. Through its stories, the land is celebrated, cursed, glorified, and explored by writers who simultaneously reveal themselves, their cultures, and their roots. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Dr. M. HERMINA
Publisher : Ashok Yakkaldevi
ISBN 13 : 1312661259
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book ETHICAL REALISM: NUMINOUS VISIONARY EXPERIENCE IN MARILYNNE ROBINSON'S SELECT WORKS written by Dr. M. HERMINA and published by Ashok Yakkaldevi. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American writing in English has been acclaimed around the world for its radical innovative approaches towards, novel writing. The American writers match with the pace of the world, with their individuality, creativity and ideology. The women novelists are recognized from their originality and versatility of their works. They mirror the realistic picture of their contemporary world with the revolutionary spirit. These women writers have shaped their literary endeavors to establish American literature as an inextricable part and have highlighted the new dimension and depth of American fiction. The twentieth century novelists have played a noteworthy part in modern fiction and have viewed the society from a realistic attitude and humanistic concern. Philosophy, psychology and theology frame the method of characterization and plots. The American culture is presented at the exploration of the psychological state of human mind. They portray individuality within the social and political realities especially among the familial relationships. According to feminist writers, their writing is a process of discovering reality and an attempt to fathom and communicate the true significance of humanity.
Author : Chris Townsend
Publisher : Sandstone Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1910124737
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Out There written by Chris Townsend and published by Sandstone Press Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE OUTDOOR WRITERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS GUILD: OUTDOOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016 'Those who decry peak bagging as mere list ticking fail to understand the commitment challenge and pleasure involved. Collecting summits means collecting experiences.' Drawing from more than forty years of experience as an outdoorsman, and probably the world's best known long distance walker who also writes, Chris Townsend describes the landscapes and wildlife, the walkers and climbers, and the authors who have influenced him in this lucid and beautiful book. Writing from his home in the heart of the Cairngorms he discusses the wild, its importance to civilisation and how we cannot do without it.
