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Between earth and sky : our intimate connections to trees / / Nalini M. Nadkarni



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Autore: Nadkarni Nalini Visualizza persona
Titolo: Between earth and sky : our intimate connections to trees / / Nalini M. Nadkarni Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-75948-5
9786612759482
0-520-93312-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808714303321
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