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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459208603321

Autore

Leaf Sue <1953->

Titolo

The bullhead queen [[electronic resource] ] : a year on Pioneer lake / / Sue Leaf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis ; ; London, : University of Minnesota Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8166-7061-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

508.776/61

Soggetti

Human ecology - Minnesota - Chisago County

Nature - Effect of human beings on - Minnesota - Chisago County

Natural history - Minnesota - Chisago County

Electronic books.

Chisago County (Minn.) History

Chisago County (Minn.) Environmental conditions

Chisago County (Minn.) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Waiting at advent -- Counting at christmas -- Wild ice -- Christmas hockey -- Morning star -- Geese on the ice -- Passing the salt -- Winter geography -- Lengthening -- Owl invasion -- What are animals for? -- Ever living fire -- Winged wonder -- The rites of spring -- The nest box war -- Conspiracy -- Illumined courtship -- The bullhead queen -- Skiing at flamin' feet -- The green season -- Rowing the mutant canoe -- Ordinary time -- Nighthawk day -- Via dolorosa -- Saints at work, saints at rest -- Everyone a king.

Sommario/riassunto

The Western approach to nature has always operated under both spiritual and scientific views. While Christianity decrees that human beings have dominion over nature, evolutionary biology teaches us that we are but highly adapted animals among a biological network of millions of other species. What is our proper relationship to wild animals-and what is our responsibility to them? In The Bullhead Queen, Sue Leaf exemplifies the moral aspect of humans to nature through a collection of engaging meditations on the places she sees every day on Pioneer Lake in east-central Minnesota. Reflecting on th