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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... trees can be glimpsed down a side path. A couple strolls arm in arm toward a fig grove near the middle of the garden, where a waterfall gushes over rocks fed by a clear bubbling stream. At the garden's very center are two trees known ...
... trees can be glimpsed down a side path. A couple strolls arm in arm toward a fig grove near the middle of the garden, where a waterfall gushes over rocks fed by a clear bubbling stream. At the garden's very center are two trees known ...
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... tree, and says the result will be a great and fine and noble education. . . . I advised her to keep away from the tree. She said she wouldn't. I forsee trouble. Will emigrate. iMark Twain, “Extracts from Adam's Diary” Two grand ...
... tree, and says the result will be a great and fine and noble education. . . . I advised her to keep away from the tree. She said she wouldn't. I forsee trouble. Will emigrate. iMark Twain, “Extracts from Adam's Diary” Two grand ...
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... 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 and keep it,” formed the birds and beasts from dust, and brought them to Adam to name ...
... 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 and keep it,” formed the birds and beasts from dust, and brought them to Adam to name ...
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... tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (In the Renaissance this fruit became an apple, owing to a play on the Latin word bad, or malum, which also means apple). The story details the loss ofinnocence through the couple's discovery of ...
... tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (In the Renaissance this fruit became an apple, owing to a play on the Latin word bad, or malum, which also means apple). The story details the loss ofinnocence through the couple's discovery of ...
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... Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil are at the center of the Garden, watered by a fountain, while the four rivers flow from the Garden. Ludolphus de Saxonia, Vita Christi (Antwerp, Gerard Leeu, 1487). Courtesy of ...
... Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil are at the center of the Garden, watered by a fountain, while the four rivers flow from the Garden. Ludolphus de Saxonia, Vita Christi (Antwerp, Gerard Leeu, 1487). Courtesy of ...
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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