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Search for a Common Language: Environmental Writing and Education

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edited by Melody Graulich & Paul Crumbley
2005
Published by: Utah State University Press
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A stellar group of writers, scientists, and educators illuminate the intersections between environmental science, creative writing, and education, considering ways to strengthen communication between differing fields with common interests. The contributing authors include Ken Brewer, Dan Flores, Hartmut Grassl, Carolyn Tanner Irish, Ted Kerasote, William Kittredge, Ellen Meloy, Louis Owens, Jennifer Price, Robert Michael Pyle, Kent C. Ryden, Annick Smith, Craig B. Stanford, Susan J. Tweit, and Keith Wilson.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title Page, Copyright

Contents

pp. v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp. vii-viii

Introduction

pp. 1-17

Preliminary Reflections on Matters Environmental

pp. 18-23

Painted Lady

pp. 24

Who Lost the Limberlost?Education and Language in a Mis-Placed Age

pp. 25-33

The Silliest Debate

pp. 34

CousinsWhat the Great Apes Tell Us about Human Origins

pp. 35-45

Why Dogs Stopped Flying

pp. 46

How Science and the Public Can Lead to BetterDecision Making in Earth System Management

pp. 47-58

Martha (1 September 1914)

pp. 59

What Is the L.A. River?

pp. 60-67

The River Blind

pp. 68

The Unexpected Environmentalist Building a Centrist Coalition

pp. 69-82

Dermatophagoides

pp. 83

At Cloudy PassThe Need of Being Versed in Human Things

pp. 84-87

Trying Not to Lie

pp. 88

Tuttle Road Landscape as Environmental Text

pp. 89-101

The Tarantula Hawk

pp. 102

Begin with a River

pp. 103-113

How to Train a Horse to Burn

pp. 114

The Natural West

pp. 115-127

Sheep

pp. 128

Separation Anxiety The Perilous Alienation of Humans from the Wild

pp. 129-134

Largest Living Organism on Earth

pp. 135

Going South

pp. 136-146

“Now the Sun Has Come to Earth”

pp. 147-148

The Pleiades

pp. 149-162

Scarlet Penstemon

pp. 163

Poetry Reading at the Tanner Conference

pp. 164

River Girl

pp. 165

Los Penitentes hermanos

pp. 166

“Where There Is Water”*

pp. 167

River Scenes

pp. 168

Cow Dogs

pp. 169-170

Village Ways

pp. 171-172

The People from the Valley

pp. 173

River Bottom

pp. 174

Tomasino

pp. 175

The Grain of Sand

pp. 176

In the New Mexico Territory, As Best I Understand,

pp. 177

Valley of the Rio Chama

pp. 178-179

The Old Man at Evening

pp. 180-181

Spring

pp. 182

The Old Man & His Snake

pp. 183

Brother & Sister Dancing: Cantina And the Mariachis Are Playing

pp. 184

The Voice of the Earth Is My Voice

pp. 185

Desert Cenote*

pp. 186

The Way Things Are Going

pp. 187

The Arrival of My Mother

pp. 188-189

The Encircled Grove

pp. 190

Revista

pp. 191

Common Cause in Common Voice

pp. 192-196

Notes

pp. 197-202
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