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Title: Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision by Kirkpatrick Sale ISBN: 0-86571-224-7 Publisher: New Society Pub Pub. Date: September, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: an antidote to rootlessness
Comment: If you've come to suspect that most of the world's problems--pollution, warfare, crime, transnational piracy, mental illness--are inherent in a civilization in decline, you might like this vision of small, face-to-face communities living in respectful accord with the natural world.
The author makes the same point as ecopsychologists and the great whale researcher Roger Payne: built by millions of years of evolution to live in close contact with the wilderness, we who have penned ourselves behind fences and buildings carry with us a ten-thousand-year-old wound....a self-inflicted wound of aching alienation (hence our tendency to alienate--to marginalize--other people).
Read this book, then tour the decidedly un-zoolike San Diego Wild Animal Park while seeing how you feel there. For some this might offer a glimpse of a sanity so centering that you can feel it throughout your body.
Rating: 5
Summary: A remedy for short-sighted environmental policies
Comment: Kirkpatrick Sale has written a vision of the future that should be drilled into politicians' subconscious and taught in grade school. Sustainable, sane, ecologically minded bioregions. I was particularly struck by his definition of "querencia"--"a deep, quiet sense of inner well-being that comes from knowing a particular place of the earth, its diurnal and seasonal patterns, its fruits and scents, its history and its part in your history . . . where, whenever you return to it, your soul releases an inner sigh of recognition and relaxation." Sale is a wonderful writer, balanced in perspective, and able to distill complex problems into a form that the average mind can comprehend, despite all the arguments pro and con. Read it.
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Title: Human Scale by Kirkpatrick Sale ISBN: 0698110137 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: April, 1982 |
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Title: LifePlace: Bioregional Thought and Practice by Jr. Robert L. Thayer ISBN: 0520236289 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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