Pride of Place: A Contemporary Anthology of Texas Nature Writing

Acknowledgments

viii Acknowledgments Some of the essays have appeared previously. They are as follows: “Still Water” From Adventures with a Texas Naturalist by Roy Bedichek, Copyright © 1947, 1961, renewed 1989. By permission of the University of Texas Press. “Kindred Spirits” FromFromaLimestoneLedge:SomeEssaysandOtherRuminations about Country Life in Texas, published by Southern Methodist University Press, and originally in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf. Copyright © 1980 by John Graves. Reprinted by permission of the author. “That One-Eyed Hereford Muley” From The Wild and the Domestic: Animal Representation, Ecocriticism, and Western American Literature by Barney Nelson. Copyright © 2000 by University of Nevada Press. Reprinted with the permission of the University of Nevada Press. “Tortas Locas” From The Underground Heart: A Return to a Hidden Landscape, by Ray Gonzales. Copyright © 2002 by Ray Gonzales. Reprinted by permission of the University of Arizona Press. “Home Address” From Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places, by Naomi Shihab Nye. Copyright © 1996 by Naomi Shihab Nye. Reprinted by permission of the University of South Carolina Press. “Faith’s Place” by Gerald Thurmond From Crossroads: A Southern Culture Annual, ed. by Ted Olson. Copyright © 2005 by Mercer University Press. Reprinted by permission of Mercer University Press. ix All such collections are the product of the labor and caring of many people. First and foremost, I would like to thank Karen DeVinney, Managing Editor of UNT Press, whose patience and kindness toward this project and me have made its publication possible. The authors have endured countless emails,letters,requests,and suggestions and stayed in good spirits.A deep thanks goes to them. I also want to thank my family: my daughter Kory, my parents Dene and Eugene Taylor, my brother Don and sister Debra and their families, Connie, Jessica, as well as the whole Peden clan. My love to you all. The Center for Environmental Philosophy has been extremely generous to me over the last three years. Eugene Hargrove and Jan Dickson have been not only wonderful colleagues, but great friends. Thanks to Mary Autry for typing several of the essays. Last, my return to Denton has given me the chance to renew many old friendships and further close ones.None has been so dear to me over the years than that of my friend Scott Schram. His wisdom and caring matter immeasurably to me. ...