edited by David Clarke Burks contributions by Terry Tempest Williams, Jay Vest, Jack Turner, Alison Dening, Gary Paul Nabhan, Dave Foreman, Paul Faulstitch, Chris Manes, R. Edward Grumbine, Bill Devall, Max Oelschlaeger, Gary Snyder, Mollie Matteson, Mitch Friedman, John Haines, Alan Drengson, David Johns, Phyllis Burks, George Wuerthner, James Morrison, Stephanie Mills, John Davis, Nancy Lord, Kirkpatrick Sale, Margaret Hayes Young, David Abram, Bill McKibben, Monique Miller and Dolores Lachapelle
Island Press, 1994 Paper: 978-1-55963-342-0 | eISBN: 978-1-61091-298-3 | Cloth: 978-1-55963-341-3 Library of Congress Classification QH75.P493 1994 Dewey Decimal Classification 333.72
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Where and what is the place of the wild? Is the goal of preserving biodiversity across the landscape of North America compatible with contemporary Western culture?
Place of the Wild brings together original essays from an exceptional array of contemporary writers and activists to present in a single volume the most current thinking on the relationship between humans and wilderness. A common thread running through the volume is the conviction that everyone concerned with the natural world -- academics and activists, philosophers and poets -- must join forces to re-establish cultural narratives and shared visions that sustain life on this planet.
The contributors apply the insights of conservation biology to the importance of wilderness in the 21st century, raising questions and stimulating thought. The volume begins with a series of personal narratives that present portraits of wildlands and humans. Following those narratives are more-analytical discourses that examine conceptions and perceptions of the wild, and of the place of humanity in it. The concluding section features clear and resonant activist voices that consider the importance of wildlands, and what can be done to reconcile the needs of wilderness with the needs of human culture.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Editor/Contributor David Clarke Burks is a writer, editor, and lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Oregon. His articles, essays, and stories have appeared in various publications across the country, and he is a correspondent for Wild Earth. He has traveled extensively throughout North and Central America.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Contours of the Wild
Burks,
David Clarke
NARRATIVES
The Far Outside
Nabhan,
Gary Paul
Water Songs
Williams,
Terry Tempest
Biodiversity, Wildness, and The Wildlands Project
Noss,
Reed F.
The Wild and the Tame
Mills,
Stephanie
The Politics of Wilderness and the Practice of the Wild
Grumbine,
Ed
Looking Salmon in the Face
Lord,
Nancy
The Reflective Ebb and Flow of the Wild
Drengson,
Alan
Sacred Geography of the Pikuni: The Badger–Two Medicine Wildlands
Vest,
Jay Hansford C.
The Land of Absence
Matteson,
Mollie Yoneko
Notes from an Interrupted Journal
Haines,
John
FRAMEWORKS
Scattered Notes on the Relation Between Language and the Land
Abram,
David
The Idea of Wilderness as a Deep Ecological Ethic
Oelschlaeger,
Max
Wilderness and Human Habitation
Johns,
David
The Cultured Wild and the Limits of Wilderness
Faulstich,
Paul
The Quality of Wildness: Preservation, Control, and Freedom
Turner,
Jack
A Natural History of Silence
Manes,
Christopher
The Rhizome Connection
LaChapelle,
Dolores
A New Vision for the West
Wuerthner,
George
Minding Wilderness
McKibben,
Bill
Covers the Ground
Snyder,
Gary
DISPATCHES
Where Man Is a Visitor
Foreman,
Dave
A Sidelong Glance at The Wildlands Project
Davis,
John
The Wildlands Project: Scientifically Sound, Ethically Compelling—and Politically Realistic
Sayen,
Jamie
Population Growth and the Wildlands Vision
Miller,
Monique A.
Humans and Big Wilderness
Friedman,
Mitch
Technology and the Wild
Sale,
Kirkpatrick
Seeing What Isn't There
Young,
Margaret Hays
Protected Areas in Canada
Morrison,
James
Restore Wildness
Devall,
Bill
from The Monarchs
Deming,
Alison
THE CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
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