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Cargando... Conversations with Trees: An Intimate Ecologypor Stephanie Kaza
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Kaza's prose and sentiments will strike many as over-the-top. There were times in this book when that included me. But my growing sense of kinship with trees no doubt strikes many as also over-the-top, so I just have to acknowledge that the line's position is personal for every reader. That said, there are some wonderful sections in these meditations. It was pretty much what I wanted when I bought the book. ( ) Reading this beautifully written, poetic volume is like listening in on the intimate conversations between two lovers. At first the experience is titillating but then grows tedious, like listening to a love-obsessed couple talk about nothing but themselves. But then one begins to pine for such a relationship of one’s own. As the reader continues to eavesdrop, more is revealed about the deeper and darker aspects of the relationship. Especially compelling is the chapter delving into fear. What Kaza accomplishes is to illustrate the nature of an intimate ecology. This approach to the natural world requires time, patience, and mindfulness. These are in short supply in our harried, busy society obsessed with efficiency, productivity, and practicality. Such an ecology may have been the reality for early indigenous peoples or for individuals who today are raised close to the land. Or for those, like Kaza, whose professions require a close study of the environment. Reading this book, though, may cultivate a longing within the reader for an intimacy with nature that requires satisfaction. If that is the case and enough people read this book, then perhaps there is the possibility for our species to regain our humanity and right relationship with the natural world of which we are a part. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
First published in 1993, Stephanie Kaza's heartfelt book helped thousands of readers kindle a sense of spiritual connection through communing with our ancient relatives - trees. Shambhala Publications is proud to reissue this book, with a beautiful new cover and a new Introduction by the author. More pertinent now than ever, Kaza's intimate exploration of the lives and relationships of individual trees exemplifies the conjunction of inquiry and emotion, of science and spirituality. In an era of species extinction and worsening climate change, this book is a warm and earnest invitation to personal and ecological sanity. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)582.16Natural sciences and mathematics Plants Plants noted for specific vegetative characteristics and flowers Herbaceous and woody plants, plants noted for their flowers TreesClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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