A Forest Environment

Stephen Law's dream task had him operating within the nation's top environment--its forests. Raised on a farm in rural Maine, Stephen grew to become a civil engineer for the U. S. woodland carrier, and A woodland setting used to be written from his stories. He enjoyed the woods and the animals that lived there, hunted, fished and enjoyed to camp and discover.

The Bullhead Queen: A Year on Pioneer Lake

The Western method of nature has regularly operated below either religious and medical perspectives. whereas Christianity decrees that people have dominion over nature, evolutionary biology teaches us that we're yet hugely tailored animals between a organic community of thousands of different species. what's our right courting to wild animals-and what's our accountability to them?

On the Edge: Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest

At the aspect grew out of a life-time spent residing and touring around the American Southwest, from San Antonio to l. a.. Char Miller examines this borderland area via a native's eyes and contemplates its substantial conflicts. inner to many of the US states and Mexico's northern tier, there are struggles over water, debates over undocumented immigrants, the criminalizing of the border, and the region's evolution right into a no-man's land.

Tagebuch I (Thoreaus Tagebücher) (German Edition)

Henry D. Thoreaus Hauptwerk ist nicht »Walden« oder »Über den zivilen Ungehorsam«, sondern sein Tagebuch, das er als 20-jähriger begann und bis wenige Tage vor seinem Tod 1861 führte. Darin notierte er Beobachtungen, die zu den bedeutendsten Naturschilderungen der Weltliteratur zählen, aber auch Gedanken und Refl exionen, die ihn als ganz eigenständigen philosophischen Kopf erkennen lassen.