Visualizing Nature
Essays on Truth, Spririt, and Philosophy
Published on 25. June 2021
112 pages
978-1-64896-037-6 (ISBN)
Description
Visualizing Nature brings together contemporary visionaries to share deeply personal essays on nature, ecology, sustainability, climate change, philosophy, and more. Compiled by editor and poet Stuart Kestenbaum, the contributors represent a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, each honoring nature's power to heal, inspire, guide, amaze, and strengthen.
Activist Maulian Dana of the Penobscot Nation writes on the intertwining relationship of motherhood and Mother Earth. Biology professor David Haskell tells the story of the resilient bristlecone pine trees, which live to be as old as 2,100 years. Iranian scholar Alireza Taghdarreh speaks to his experience of translating Emerson's "Nature" into Farsi. A previously unpublished 1962 speech by Rachel Carson complements the collection of more than twenty essays, each inviting the reader into a quiet space of reflection with the opportunity to think deeply about how they relate to the natural world.
Activist Maulian Dana of the Penobscot Nation writes on the intertwining relationship of motherhood and Mother Earth. Biology professor David Haskell tells the story of the resilient bristlecone pine trees, which live to be as old as 2,100 years. Iranian scholar Alireza Taghdarreh speaks to his experience of translating Emerson's "Nature" into Farsi. A previously unpublished 1962 speech by Rachel Carson complements the collection of more than twenty essays, each inviting the reader into a quiet space of reflection with the opportunity to think deeply about how they relate to the natural world.
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Stuart Kestenbaum of Deer Isle, Maine, is the state's poet laureate and senior advisor at Monson Arts. Formerly the director of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Kestenbaum has authored five poetry collections as well as The View from Here, a collection of essays.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- EXCERPTS FROM NATURE
- INTRODUCTION
- ON DISCIPLINE
- GROWING THROUGH FIRE
- EARTH VERSE
- VISITING THE ELDERS: ROCKY MOUNTAIN BRISTLECONE PINE
- GLORY IN LIVING THROUGH NATURE'S INDIFFERENCE
- ON BEING A RAINING CLOUD: FROM RUMI TO EMERSON
- ROLL AND HISS AND FOAM
- COLD WATER
- THE GEOGRAPHY OF MEMORY
- NIGHT FLIGHT
- BREATHLESS
- THE INDISPENSABLE OAK
- THE ANTI-GARDEN: HUSBANDRY VERSUS WILDERNESS
- ECOSYSTEMS OF FRIENDSHIP AND WATER
- AGRICULTURAL HUMANITY
- LIFE CYCLES
- NATURE'S SEASONS
- TEASEL, A HEALING PLANT
- THE TIDE
- CARING FOR NATURE
- CONTRIBUTORS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Copyright
