The left hand of Eden : meditations on nature and human nature / William Ashworth
- Bib ID:
- 1382837
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ashworth, William, 1942-
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 1999
- xiv, 194 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0870714600 (acid-free paper)
- Summary:
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"The Left Hand of Eden contributes to the growing, often contentious debate on wilderness and forest practices, but does so from an unusual perspective - that of an environmentalist advocating abandonment of wilderness preservation."--BOOK JACKET. "Ashworth argues that wilderness preservation is a form of separation from the land and, as such, is as harmful to nature as logging or mining. Treating nature as something "other" - whether to preserve it or destroy it - creates a false dichotomy, from which all modern environmental battles arise: use versus preservation, civilization versus wilderness."--BOOK JACKET. "Ashworth presents his ideas in a series of linked nature essays. In these writings he shows that proper care for the land requires not just use or reverence, but use with reverence."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- I. The Undiscovered Journey. A Death at Sunset. Witnesses to the Creation. The Undiscovered Journey
- II. The Enemy of Progress. The Lone and Level Sands. The Butterfly's Wing. The Thing He Loves. The Enemy of Progress. Hopeful Monsters. On the Edge
- III. The Left Hand of Eden. Thoreau's Doormat. Spotting the Owl. The Left Hand of Eden. Down the River.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-194).
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1999
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