Description "Through a narrative that roams in unexpected directions through surprising details and history, then periodically grounds itself by looping back to her own family before it soars off again, Alice Outwater\'s infectiously readable Wild at Heart captures the essence of ecology: Everything is connected, and every connection leads to ourselves." --Alan Weisman, author, The World Without Us and Countdown In the tradition of The World Without Us , a beautifully written and ultimately hopeful history of our Relationship with the natural world Nature on the brink? Maybe not.
She has lived on a farm since 1991 in Vermont, Hawaii and finally Colorado..
She is the author of Water: A Natural History and consults in water quality.
About the author Alice Outwater grew up on Lake Champlain, Vermont, and studied engineering at the University of Vermont and at MIT.
This compelling book reveals both how we got here and our own and nature\'s astonishing ability to mutually regenerate.
Like the First Nations, all nations must come to deep agreement that Nature needs protection.
Humans can learn from the past, and our choices today will determine whether Nature survives.
Cities are embracing nature, too.
Across the US, people are taking individual action, planting native species and fighting for projects like dam removal and wolf restoration.
But in the span of a few decades, our Relationship with Nature has evolved to a more sophisticated sense of interdependence that brings us full circle.
with little forethought and great greed, Americans killed the last passenger pigeon, wiped out the old growth forests, and dumped so much oil in the rivers that they burst into flame.
The Puritans saw Nature as a frightening wilderness, full of "uncooked meat." with the industrial revolution, Nature was despoiled and simultaneously celebrated as a source of the sublime.
The Chinook gave thanks for King Salmon\'s gifts.
In a narrative that reaches from Native American tribal practices to public health and commercial hunting, Wild at Heart shows how western attitudes towards Nature have changed dramatically in the last five hundred years.
with so much bad news in the world, we forget how much environmental progress has been made.
Description "Through a narrative that roams in unexpected directions through surprising details and history, then periodically grounds itself by looping back to her own family before it soars off again, Alice Outwater\'s infectiously readable Wild at Heart captures the essence of ecology: Everything is connected, and every connection leads to ourselves." --Alan Weisman, author, The World Without Us and Countdown In the tradition of The World Without Us , a beautifully written and ultimately hopeful history of our Relationship with the natural world Nature on the brink? Maybe not
