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Ecoviews: Snakes, Snails, and Environmental Tales
The authors offer a fun-to-read perspective on natural history, ecology as a field of study, and the current environmental issues that face our communities and the world.
This lively and entertaining book provides a fascinating and thought-provoking look at the ecology of animals, plants, and their habitats and promotes awareness of pressing environmental issues. The eight informative chapters deliver effective environmental messages and supply compelling insight into the natural world and the ecologists who investigate its many mysteries.
From a concerned ecological stance, the authors show that human relationship with other organisms and the environment is always complex and can be exhilarating, inspiring, humorous, and irritating, depending on perspectives and circumstances. Writing truly to inform and delight, they give a captivating variety of examples from the natural world in hopes of making readers of all ages more compassionate, more tolerant, and more sensitive to other living organisms and their interrelationships. The book celebrates the intrinsic worth of all plants and animals in order to motivate people in a unified effort to preserve the Earth's rich array of life forms. The preservation of the integrity of our planet's biodiversity is, the authors illustrate, critical to our own survival.
This lively and entertaining book provides a fascinating and thought-provoking look at the ecology of animals, plants, and their habitats and promotes awareness of pressing environmental issues. The eight informative chapters deliver effective environmental messages and supply compelling insight into the natural world and the ecologists who investigate its many mysteries.
From a concerned ecological stance, the authors show that human relationship with other organisms and the environment is always complex and can be exhilarating, inspiring, humorous, and irritating, depending on perspectives and circumstances. Writing truly to inform and delight, they give a captivating variety of examples from the natural world in hopes of making readers of all ages more compassionate, more tolerant, and more sensitive to other living organisms and their interrelationships. The book celebrates the intrinsic worth of all plants and animals in order to motivate people in a unified effort to preserve the Earth's rich array of life forms. The preservation of the integrity of our planet's biodiversity is, the authors illustrate, critical to our own survival.
- GenresNature
168 pages, Paperback
First published March 20, 1998
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J. Whitfield Gibbons
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February 8, 2023
I used to read columns by Whit Gibbons in the Athens, Georgia daily newspapers, witty opinion pieces from his professorial positions at the University of Georgia and the associated Savannah River Ecology Lab (SREL) in downstate South Carolina, near Aiken. Some were better in my memory than the essays here...
Which are ok, charming, and insightful... but less pointed and just a little pedantic.
Still worth reading, even fun, especially if you are a fan, like me.
Mildly recommended.
Thanks, Fulton County Public Library for the loan - and renewals.
Which are ok, charming, and insightful... but less pointed and just a little pedantic.
Still worth reading, even fun, especially if you are a fan, like me.
Mildly recommended.
Thanks, Fulton County Public Library for the loan - and renewals.
July 29, 2010
The tone of this book and the writing just isn't what I expected. I'm in the 2nd chapter, fully believe in the book's topic, and can't get engaged. I'm going to have to pass on reading the rest of it. There are too many books and not enough time.
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