Teaching the Trees - 9780820329550
Un libro in lingua di Joan Maloof edito da Univ of Georgia Pr, 2007
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Never really at home in a laboratory, Maloof took to the woods early in her career. Her enthusiasm for firsthand observation in the wild spills over into her writing, whether the subject is the composition of forest air, the eagle's preference for nesting in loblolly pines, the growth rings of the bald cypress, or the gray squirrel's fondness for weevil-infested acorns. With a storyteller's instinct for intriguing particulars, Maloof expands our notions about what a tree ?is” through her many asides--about the six species of leafhoppers who eat only sycamore leaves or the midges who live inside holly berries and somehow prevent them from turning red.
As a scientist, Maloof accepts that trees have a spiritual dimension that cannot be quantified. As an unrepentant tree hugger, she finds support in the scientific case for biodiversity. As an activist, she can't help but wonder how much time is left for our forests.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Teaching the Trees
- Sottotitolo: Lessons from the Forest
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Joan Maloof
- Editore: Univ of Georgia Pr
- Collana: Univ of Georgia Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 25 Marzo '07
- Genere: NATURE
- Argomenti : Trees East (U.S.) Anecdotes Forest ecology East (U.S.) Anecdotes
- Pagine: 156
- Dimensioni mm: 215 x 127 x 6
- ISBN-10: 082032955X
- EAN-13: 9780820329550