Shadow Landscape: Stories from the Field - Couverture souple

Patten, Leslie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0578890593 ISBN 13 : 9780578890593

Editeur : Far Cry Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

Our human world has burgeoned so rapidly that it has completely consumed our earth. Wildness has receded into the shadows. Finding wildlife is akin to finding Waldo in a sea of human activity. And with less wildlife on the landscape, whole ecosystems collapsing, and extinctions becoming more common, our serendipitous encounters are vanishing too.

Shadow Landscape recounts stories of my own animal meetings, some intentional, others unexpected, in the vanishing world of wildness. The majority of the stories included were written during the COVID winter, some in Arizona and others in Wyoming. But the events occurred over several years. Working for many years with plants and animals, I now consider the animal world like a troupe of jazz dancers. Wildlife sway and move to each other. They anticipate their partner's next maneuver; they are creative in their calculations and read with expertise every gesture, smell, and sign on the land. Meanwhile, we humans sit on the dance-floor bench with only the two-step under our belt. We are bumbling and awkward in our participation. Loud, fast, self-absorbed. Possibly the connection between all these tales is my own clumsy attempt to touch nature's heart, to understand the ineffable, to reach beyond my grasp and feel like I too am learning to jazz dance.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Leslie Patten is a naturalist with a background in landscape design and environmental sustainability, complemented with extensive romping in wilderness

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Far Cry Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0578890593
• ISBN 13: 9780578890593
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 182
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