Every little girl has dreams, too: of being rescued by her prince and swept up into a great adventure, knowing that she is the beauty.īut what happens to those dreams when we grow up? Walk into most churches, have a look around, and ask yourself: What is a Christian man? Without listening to what is said, look at what you find there. And every little has dreams, big dreams, dreams of being the hero, of beating the bad guys, of doing daring feats and rescuing the damsel in distress. This compelling book reveals both how we got here and our own and nature's astonishing ability to mutually regenerate.ĭieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in D ausgeliefert werden.Every man was once a boy. Like the First Nations, all nations must come to deep agreement that nature needs protection. Humans can learn from the past, and our choices today will determine whether nature survives. Across the US, people are taking individual action, planting native species and fighting for projects like dam removal and wolf restoration. But in the span of a few decades, our relationship with nature has evolved to a more sophisticated sense of interdependence that brings us full circle. With little forethought and great greed, Americans killed the last passenger pigeon, wiped out the old growth forests, and dumped so much oil in the rivers that they burst into flame. The Puritans saw Nature as a frightening wilderness, full of 'uncooked meat.' With the industrial revolution, nature was despoiled and simultaneously celebrated as a source of the sublime. The Chinook gave thanks for King Salmon's gifts. In a narrative that reaches from Native American tribal practices to public health and commercial hunting, Wild at Heart shows how western attitudes towards nature have changed dramatically in the last five hundred years.

With so much bad news in the world, we forget how much environmental progress has been made.

Information rich to say the least, and the indigenous human connections and portrait of the deep connectivity of nature, are both strong elements.' -Jim McClintock, author of A Naturalist Goes Fishing Nature on the brink? Maybe not. Produktbeschreibung 'Alice Outwater's infectiously readable Wild at Heart captures the essence of ecology: Everything is connected, and every connection leads to ourselves.' -Alan Weisman, author, The World Without Us and Countdown 'A wonderful book.

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