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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- EARTH IS NOT A GARDEN
- Ist Teil von
- The Eye of the Sandpiper, 2017, p.181
- Ort / Verlag
- Cornell University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2017
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Several years ago, I asked a biologist friend what she thought of a recently fashionable notion in environmentalist circles: that pristine nature was an illusion, and our beloved wilderness an outdated construct that didn’t actually exist. She’d just finished her shift at the local boardwalk, a volunteer-tended path through a lovely little peat bog that formed after the last ice age, near what is today eastern Maine’s largest commercial shopping area. After a moment’s reflection, she said this was probably true, in an academic sense, but she didn’t pay it much mind. The fact remained that places such as the
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9781501707728, 1501707728Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctt1ws7x6x_36
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Animals, Applied ecology, Biodiversity conservation, Biological sciences, Biology, Conservation agriculture, Conservation biology, Earth sciences, Ecology, Environmental conservation, Environmental ethics, Environmental management, Environmental philosophy, Environmental sciences, Environmental studies, Forest conservation, Geography, Habitat conservation, Humans, Land, Mammals, Natural resource management, Nature, Nature conservation, Physical sciences, Primates, Species extinction, Wilderness, Zoology