Full name: Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

Author: William Cronon Year: 1995 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393315110 0393315118

In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature in our malls through the Nature Company, and the disputes between working people and environmentalists over spotted owls and other objects of species preservation. The problem is that we haven't learned to live responsibly in nature. The environmentalist aim of legislating humans out of the wilderness is no solution. People, Cronon argues, are inextricably tied to nature, whether they live in cities or countryside. Rather than attempt to exclude humans, environmental advocates should help us learn to live in some sustainable relationship with nature. It is our home. Similar books: The End of Nature by Bill McKibben Something New Under the Sun by J. R. McNeill Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee Hope, Human and Wild by Bill McKibben The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki Ecoholic by Adria Vasil Deep Ecology by Bill Devall Nature's Economy by Donald Worster The Closing Circle by Barry Commoner Silent Spring by Rachel Carson A Green History of the World by Clive Ponting From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing The Wisdom of the Native Americans by Kent Nerburn Changes in the Land by William Cronon The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall The Life of Greece by Will Durant The Philosophy of Schopenhauer by Bryan Magee The Great Thoughts by George Seldes The Renaissance by Will Durant