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On Nature's Terms : Contemporary Voices, Paperback / softback Book

On Nature's Terms : Contemporary Voices Paperback / softback

Edited by Thomas J. Lyon, Peter Stine

Paperback / softback

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Outside, where the wind is blowing, we see the world on nature’s terms, and we see that it is severely endangered.

Turning inward, we seek a sense of connection with nature that could perhaps help us through the current environmental crisis.

In this book, some of the most observant Americans of our day explore these outer and inner worlds in powerful pieces that show the vitality and range of contemporary nature writing.

John Hay’s “A Faire Bay,” an original collection of thoughts on the pollution of the Chesapeake, opens the book, and Edward Hoagland’s “A Year as It Turns,” a group of short seasonal pieces that originally appeared as editorials in the New York Times, serves as the conclusion.

Some of the other authors represented here include Rick Bass, Marcia Bonta, Charles Bowden, Jean Craighead George, Barry Lopez, Gary Snyder, and Terry Tempest Williams.

Whether swimming with dolphins in the Florida Keys or stalking deer with the mountain lions, these authors experience and reflect on the terms nature sets and the terms we set for nature.

With them, we discover the importance of the jack pine in the Boundary Waters, uncover the hidden beauty of Sonoran cacti, explore the very alive world of a Pennsylvania winter, visit the startling silences of the Canadian River Gorge in the Southwest, experience the breathtaking world of life on arctic ice, and view Venus at daybreak from the Grand Canyon.

These are stories of place, and of family and friends, both human and nonhuman.

They are tales of understanding and coming to terms with the world around us.

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