Between earth and sky : our intimate connections to trees / / Nalini M. Nadkarni
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| Autore: |
Nadkarni Nalini
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| Titolo: |
Between earth and sky : our intimate connections to trees / / Nalini M. Nadkarni
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 582.16 |
| Soggetto topico: | Trees - Social aspects |
| Trees - Religious aspects | |
| Trees - Environmental aspects | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | activists |
| artists | |
| biology | |
| canopy biology | |
| clergymen | |
| commerce | |
| cultural studies | |
| culture | |
| fauna | |
| habitats | |
| legal issues | |
| legislation | |
| life lessons | |
| loggers | |
| medicine | |
| musicians | |
| natural world | |
| nature | |
| religion | |
| religious studies | |
| science | |
| scientific | |
| students | |
| symbolic | |
| symbolism | |
| tree animals | |
| tree dwelling animals | |
| trees | |
| true story | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-297) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledglnents -- Introduction: View from the Top -- ONE. What Is a Tree? -- TWO. Goods and Services -- THREE. Shelter and Protection -- FOUR. Health and Healing -- FIVE. Play and Imagination -- SIX. Connections to Time -- SEVEN. Signs and Symbols -- EIGHT. Spirituality and Religion -- NINE. Mindfulness -- Scientific Names of Trees in the Text -- Notes -- Recommended Readings -- Poetry Credits -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | World-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni has climbed trees on four continents with scientists, students, artists, clergymen, musicians, activists, loggers, legislators, and Inuits, gathering diverse perspectives. In Between Earth and Sky, a rich tapestry of personal stories, information, art, and photography, she becomes our captivating guide to the leafy wilderness above our heads. Through her luminous narrative, we embark on a multifaceted exploration of trees that illuminates the profound connections we have with them, the dazzling array of goods and services they provide, and the powerful lessons they hold for us. Nadkarni describes trees' intricate root systems, their highly evolved and still not completely understood canopies, their role in commerce and medicine, their existence in city centers and in extreme habitats of mountaintops and deserts, and their important place in folklore and the arts. She explains tree fundamentals and considers the symbolic role they have assumed in culture and religion. In a book that reawakens our sense of wonder at the fascinating world of trees, we ultimately find entry to the entire natural world and rediscover our own place in it. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Between earth and sky |
| ISBN: | 1-282-75948-5 |
| 9786612759482 | |
| 0-520-93312-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808714303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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