Tài liệu Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky Brushes with Nature's Wisdom

Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky: Brushes with Nature's Wisdom

by Trudy Dittmar
University of Iowa Press, 2003

Hardcover: 236 pages
Language: English
Available November 2003 In essays with settings that range from the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, to the mountain town of Leadville, Colorado, to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, Trudy Dittmar weaves personal experience with diverse threads of subject matter to create unexpected connections between human nature and nature at large. Life stories, elegantly combined with mindful observations of animals, plants, landscape and the skies, theories in natural science, environmental considerations, and touches of art criticism and popular culture, offer insights into the linked analogies of nature and soul. A glacial pond teeming with salamanders in arrested development is cause for reflection on the limits of a life that knows only bounty. The hot blue lights of celestial phenomena are a metaphor for fast, flashy men—he loves of a life—and a romantic career is interpreted. Watching a pronghorn buck battling for, and ultimately losing, his harem leads to a meditation on a kind of immortality.Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky is testimony to the bearing and consequence of nature in one life, and to the richness of understanding it can bring to all human lives.





Pronghorn p. 1
Cows, arrogance, and natures of things p. 12
The porcupine's old clothes p. 29
Moose p. 41
Going to rainbow p. 56
Paedomorph pools and other blighted bounties p. 72
Cache p. 93
Still point p. 105
Wolf show, Truman, Ersatz moon p. 148
Men and the blue lights of nature p. 185
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