The Earth Only Endures: On Reconnecting with Nature and Our Place in ItRoutledge, 04/05/2012 - 288 páginas For most of human history, we have lived our daily lives in a close relationship with the land. Yet now, for the first time, more people are living in urban rather than rural areas, bringing about an estrangement. This book, by acclaimed author Jules Pretty, is fundamentally about our relationship with nature, animals and places. A series of interlinked essays leads readers on a voyage that weaves through the themes of connection and estrangement between humans and nature. The journey shows how our modern lifestyles and economies would need six or eight Earths if the entire worlds population adopted our profligate ways. Pretty shows that we are rendering our own world inhospitable and so risk losing what it means to be human: unless we make substantial changes, Gaia threatens to become Grendel. Ultimately, however, the book offers glimpses of an optimistic future for humanity, in the very face of climate change and pending global environmental catastrophe. |
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... children, connect them with nature and its mysteries early, and prevent the extinction of eco-logical literacy that will dog us to our graves. The landscape is full of stories and subtle meanings. It x THE EARTH ONLY ENDURES.
... dogs, bears, elephants, foxes and hedgehogs thoroughly outnumber the humans. The fables of Aesop and tales of the Grimm brothers, of course, did this so well that these characters have become part of many cultures. We also remain ...
... Dogs, John Gray states, 'these mass murders were not concealed; they were public policy'. Add to this the nightmares of Nazi extermination of six million Jews, the killing fields of Cambodia, Rwanda and Bosnia, and recent deliberate ...
... dog-walkers, ramblers, runners, horseriders, cyclists and game-shooters. Why do we do all these things? What possesses ... dogs or horses) and with wild animals, both by hunting and observing, and feel something special about exposure to ...
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Part 2 Animals and Us | 53 |
Part 3 Food and the Land | 97 |
Part 4 People and the Land | 153 |
Part 5 The Future | 195 |
Notes | 223 |
References | 243 |
Index | 267 |
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