Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western CultureThis revised edition of Carolyn Merchant’s classic Reinventing Eden has been updated with a new foreword and afterword. Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations and offers a bold new way to think about the earth. |
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... to the emerging idea of natara: the process of growth (to be born, increase, and die) and the result of that growth (the mature plant, animal, and human). Heraclitus's phrase “loves to hide” implies that nature's secrets are Foreword.
... to the emerging idea of natara: the process of growth (to be born, increase, and die) and the result of that growth (the mature plant, animal, and human). Heraclitus's phrase “loves to hide” implies that nature's secrets are Foreword.
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... plants, invasive nonnative species, bacteria, viruses, and humans are all actors who are often unpredictable and unmanageable. They inject uncertainties into the trajectories of progress and decline. As environmental historian Theodore ...
... plants, invasive nonnative species, bacteria, viruses, and humans are all actors who are often unpredictable and unmanageable. They inject uncertainties into the trajectories of progress and decline. As environmental historian Theodore ...
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... plants. God then created the Garden of Eden, the four rivers that flowed from it, and the trees for food (including the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the center). He put “the man” in the garden “to dress ...
... plants. God then created the Garden of Eden, the four rivers that flowed from it, and the trees for food (including the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the center). He put “the man” in the garden “to dress ...
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... plants and animals, rivers and forests, as part of a larger, encompassing whole. . . .” In that deep past, people in gathering/hunting bands lived sustainably and “comfortably in the wilderness,” albeit within cycles of want and plenty ...
... plants and animals, rivers and forests, as part of a larger, encompassing whole. . . .” In that deep past, people in gathering/hunting bands lived sustainably and “comfortably in the wilderness,” albeit within cycles of want and plenty ...
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Contents
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Part II New World Edens | 79 |
Part III New Stories | 159 |
Epilogue | 209 |
Afterword | 211 |
Notes | 217 |
Bibliography | 251 |
Index | 271 |
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