EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Desert solitaire was first published in "--P. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more.
Here, the legendary author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road and many other critically acclaimed books vividly captures the essence of his life during three seasons as a park ranger in southeastern Utah.
This is a rare view of a quest to experience nature in its purest form -- the silence, the struggle, the overwhelming beauty. This author has written many glorious books which are equally beautiful and inspiring. Abbey spent time as a park ranger in Arches National Park in the late 60s, and in the process, travelled all around southern Utah and northern Arizona. This book is the outcome of that stay, yet it is so much more. Abbey uses this book as a platform not only to make observations about the geography, fauna and flora of Utah but as a place to vent his spleen at the destruction of the natural world and the dehumanizing nature of our society.
The book is also filled with humour, pathos, and great sensitivity. His prose is elastic, conversational at some points, poetic and profound at others. These writers used powerfully evocative and galvanizing metaphors for nature, metaphors that Daniel J. This book serves as a collection of these statements from great philosophers and thought—influencers of science, past and present.
It allows the reader quickly to find relevant quotations or citations. Organized thematically and indexed alphabetically by author, this work makes readily available an unprecedented collection of approximately 18, quotations related to a broad range of scientific topics. Earthly Words Author : John R. Literature of Nature Author : Patrick D. An additional section considers the literature thematically and cross-culturally. Sample topics include the mountain in 20th- century French literature, woman and the land in the Romanian agrarian novel, war and environment in African literature, and science fiction as environmental literature.
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