A Passion for Nature

A Passion for Nature
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 544
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ISBN-10 : 9780199782246
ISBN-13 : 0199782245
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Passion for Nature by : Donald Worster

Download or read book A Passion for Nature written by Donald Worster and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Worster's A Passion for Nature is the most complete account of the great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club ever written. It is the first to be based on Muir's full private correspondence and to meet modern scholarly standards, yet it is also full of rich detail and personal anecdote, uncovering the complex inner life behind the legend of the solitary mountain man. It traces Muir from his boyhood in Scotland and frontier Wisconsin to his adult life in California right after the Civil War up to his death on the eve of World War I. It explores his marriage and family life, his relationship with his abusive father, his many friendships with the humble and famous (including Theodore Roosevelt and Ralph Waldo Emerson), and his role in founding the modern American conservation movement. Inspired by Muir's passion for the wilderness, Americans created a long and stunning list of national parks and wilderness areas, Yosemite most prominent among them. Yet the book also describes a Muir who was a successful fruit-grower, a talented scientist and world-traveler, a doting father and husband, and a self-made man of wealth and political influence. The winner of numerous book awards, A Passion for Nature was also named a Best Book of 2008 by Washington Post Book World. It is the first comprehensive biography of Muir to appear in six decades.

Passions for Nature

Passions for Nature
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 660
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ISBN-10 : 9780820332895
ISBN-13 : 0820332895
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Passions for Nature by : Rochelle Johnson

Download or read book Passions for Nature written by Rochelle Johnson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century Americans celebrated nature through many artistic forms, including natural-history writing, landscape painting, landscape design theory, and transcendental philosophy. Although we tend to associate these movements with the nation’s dawning environmental consciousness, Passions for Nature demonstrates that they instead alienated Americans from the physical environment even as they seemed to draw people to it. Rather than see these expressions of passion for nature as initiating environmental awareness, this study reveals how they contributed to a culture that remains startlingly ignorant of the details of the material world. Using as a touchstone the writings of nineteenth-century philanthropist Susan Fenimore Cooper (the daughter of famed author James Fenimore Cooper), Passions for Nature reveals that while a generalized passion for nature was intense and widespread in her era, cultural attention to the "real" physical world was quite limited. Popular artistic forms represented the natural world through specific metaphors for the American experience, cultivating a national tradition of valuing nature in terms of humanity. Johnson crosses disciplinary boundaries to demonstrate that anthropocentric understandings of the natural world result not only from the growing gulf between science and imagination that C. P. Snow located in the early twentieth century but also--and surprisingly--from cultural productions traditionally viewed as positive engagements with the environment. By uncovering the roots of a cultural alienation from nature, Passions for Nature explains how the United States came to be a nation that simultaneously reveres the natural world and yet remains dangerously distant from it.

A Passion for Nature

A Passion for Nature
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Publisher : Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1882886267
ISBN-13 : 9781882886265
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Passion for Nature by : Keith Stewart Thomson

Download or read book A Passion for Nature written by Keith Stewart Thomson and published by Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Jefferson recorded weather observations, experimented with plant species, kept a pet mockingbird, and turned the entry hall at Monticello into a veritable natural history museum with elk and moose antlers, a grizzly bear claw, and the fossilized jaws of a mastodon. Jefferson wrote with lyrical flair about the landscapes of his mountaintop home, as he did in a 1786 letter to his friend Maria Cosway: How sublime to look down into the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet! Jefferson's deep interest in the natural world -- from the flora and fauna of Albemarle County to the exotic specimens gathered by Lewis and Clark on their trek to the Pacific -- and how it shaped his life as a philosopher, farmer, and Founding Father is the subject of A Passion for Nature: Thomas Jefferson and Natural History. --from publisher description.

A Passion for Nature

A Passion for Nature
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 544
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ISBN-10 : 9780199721733
ISBN-13 : 0199721734
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Passion for Nature by : Donald Worster

Download or read book A Passion for Nature written by Donald Worster and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-21 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing." In Donald Worster's magisterial biography, John Muir's "special self" is fully explored as is his extraordinary ability, then and now, to get others to see the sacred beauty of the natural world. A Passion for Nature is the most complete account of the great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club ever written. It is the first to be based on Muir's full private correspondence and to meet modern scholarly standards. Yet it is also full of rich detail and personal anecdote, uncovering the complex inner life behind the legend of the solitary mountain man. It traces Muir from his boyhood in Scotland and frontier Wisconsin to his adult life in California right after the Civil War up to his death on the eve of World War I. It explores his marriage and family life, his relationship with his abusive father, his many friendships with the humble and famous (including Theodore Roosevelt and Ralph Waldo Emerson), and his role in founding the modern American conservation movement. Inspired by Muir's passion for the wilderness, Americans created a long and stunning list of national parks and wilderness areas, Yosemite most prominent among them. Yet the book also describes a Muir who was a successful fruit-grower, a talented scientist and world-traveler, a doting father and husband, a self-made man of wealth and political influence. A man for whom mountaineering was "a pathway to revelation and worship." For anyone wishing to more fully understand America's first great environmentalist, and the enormous influence he still exerts today, Donald Worster's biography offers a wealth of insight into the passionate nature of a man whose passion for nature remains unsurpassed.

A Passion for Nature

A Passion for Nature
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Publisher : Hypatia Publications
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 1872229581
ISBN-13 : 9781872229584
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Passion for Nature by : Deirdre Dare

Download or read book A Passion for Nature written by Deirdre Dare and published by Hypatia Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of Victorian botanist, social historian, and educator, Charles Alexander Johns (1811-1874), best known for the classic guide Flowers of the Field.

Ideal Metrology in Nature, Art, Religion and History

Ideal Metrology in Nature, Art, Religion and History
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Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044033560178
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Book Synopsis Ideal Metrology in Nature, Art, Religion and History by : Herman Gaylord Wood

Download or read book Ideal Metrology in Nature, Art, Religion and History written by Herman Gaylord Wood and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Treatise on Human Nature

A Treatise on Human Nature
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Total Pages : 492
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433067226096
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Treatise on Human Nature by : David Hume

Download or read book A Treatise on Human Nature written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: