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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
I consider noise to be any sound that intrudes, covers, blocks, or distorts the articulation of sounds coming from the natural (as opposed to domestic) creature world.
Bernie Krause • Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural World, Revised Edition
The most complete study of this problem that we know, comes from Ian McHarg (Design With Nature, New York: Natural History
Christopher Alexander • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
A unified legacy works toward healing the world around them and creating a better environment for all the children who come after.
Adam Smith • Slaying Your Fear: A guide for people who grapple with insecurity
Much of what was known about hurricanes in those days derived from the work of Reverend Benito Vines, a nineteenth-century Jesuit priest who was one of the first meteorologists to specialize in hurricane forecasting. Reverend Vines had established a meteorological observatory at Belén College in Havana, and while he had access to little in the way
... See moreLes Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
The gurus for this kind of niche-shift will be people who have studied the places we want to go. Systems ecologists like Howard T. Odum have studied the food chains in a prairie or estuary or bottomland and then drawn diagrams of energy flows and fluxes.
Janine M. Benyus • Biomimicry
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