Nature and Madness

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Nature and Madness OTHER BOOKS BYPAUL SHEPARD Man in theLandscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature The Subversive Science:Essays toward the Ecology of Man, edited with Daniel McKinley Environ/Mental: Essays on the Planet as a Home, edited with Daniel McKinley The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game Thinking Animals: Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence The Sacred Paw: The Bear in Nature, Myth, and Literature, with Barry Sanders The Others: How Animals Made Us Human Traces of an Omnivore The Only World We've Got Nature and Madness PAUL SHEPARD Foreword by C. L. Rawlins The University of Georgia Press Athens & London Published by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602© 1982 by Paul Shepard Foreword © 1998 by The University of Georgia Press All rights reserved Printed digitally in the United States of America LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Shepard, Paul, 1925Nature and madness / Paul Shepard ; with a foreword by C. L. Rawlins. xxii, 178 p. ; 23 cm. Originally published: San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, c1982 Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-173) and index. ISBN 0-8203-1980-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Nature—Effect of human beings on. 2. Human ecology. I. Title GF75.S53 1998 304.2—dc21 97-23869 ISBN-13: 97 203-1980-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data Available www.ugapress.org Cover art: Goddess #1, (1997)© Martha Madigan; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY ISBN for this digital edition: 978-0-8203-4233-7 for Jane, Kent and Margaret, Who have demonstrated in their epigenesis How the gen can repair the epi And the epi summon the gen This page intentionally left blank ...