An Affair with Mother Nature
An Affair with Mother Nature

Author: JWTrout

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2017-05-26

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1524588997

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The following six pieces are just but a few of the events that have been witnessed while on the river fishing. The Netting of a Trout was an experience my cousin Ed and I enjoyed together in our early attempts at trout fishing. It is a short piece that connects to trout behavior. Ausable River Monster is a piece that has not been forgotten. The trout behavior in this was surprising and lasted only seconds. And left the writer stunned that he was able to witness the event - plus, having a fellow fly fisher actually catch the monster a few days later. The Exceptional Take is about adequate food, a feeding trout, cautious casting and line handling, precise fly presentation, the trouts take of the fly, setting the hook and playing the trout. Rain Drop Rises is about mistaking a rise of a trout to a mayfly for drops of water making a watery disturbance on the river surface. It is a lesion on observation, studding the water, recognizing the hatching of mayflies and the patient waiting to be sure of the feeding trouts location and placement of the correct fly pattern to the trouts feeding lane. The piece Break-Off, ------ the Final Jump is another piece about trouts behavior. While many fishermen may have encountered the same experience, not all of the have connected to the reason why the final jump happened. The Pacific Salmon Altercation is about piece experienced on the Salmon River that was totally unbelievable to the writer when it occurred. While the event has been told to many friends, it is not sure how many really believed that it happened.

Mother/nature
Mother/nature

Author: Catherine M. Roach

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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This brief but ambitious book explores our relationship with nature through the imagery we use when we talk about Mother Nature. Employing the critical tools of religious studies, psychology, and gender studies, Catherine M. Roach examines the various manifestations of nature as "mother" and what that idea implies for the way we approach the natural world. Part One, "Nature as Good Mother," discusses the notion that nature is, or is like, a beneficent and nurturing mother who provides and maintains life. In studying the "green" slogan "Love Your Mother," Roach questions the effects-for women and for the environment-of imputing female gender to nature. She asks us to look at the associations "motherhood" and "mothering" carry within a culture still shaped by patriarchy. She notes the danger of such an apparently pro-environmental slogan if "mother" evokes the bountiful, self-sacrificing provider who herself requires no care.Part Two, "Nature as Bad Mother," looks at the contrary notion of nature as a violent, threatening, and wrathful mother. This image arises most often when humans and technology are depicted as masters of unruly nature. Here Roach draws on theological reflection to analyze this ambivalence toward nature manifested in a fantasy that casts humans as gods. She explores the contributions of eco-theology and eco-psychology to a "heart of darkness" perspective. Finally, Part Three, "Nature as Hurt Mother," looks at possibilities and pitfalls of environmental healing inherent in the image of nature as a mother we have wounded and now seek to heal.ALSO OF INTEREST ECOFEMINISMWomen, Culture, NatureEdited by Karen J. Warren0-253-33031-9 HB £37.950-253-21057-7 PB £18.95

Mother Nature
Mother Nature

Author: Sarah Hrdy

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2000-09-05

Total Pages: 760

ISBN-13:

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In this interpretation of the relationships between mothers and fathers, mothers and babies, and mothers and their social group, Hrdy offers a revolutionary new meaning to motherhood, and an important new understanding of human evolution.

Mother Nature
Mother Nature

Author: Emilia Pardo Bazn

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0838757979

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Mother Nature is certainly Emilia Pardo Bazan's greatest contribution to the Realistic/ Naturalistic Spanish novel of her time, and represents her literary powers at the very height of her career as a writer. It has been said that this novel presents the keenest challenges and the most compelling rewards, offering the reader the purposefully overgrown ecological, social, and moral background for a poignant central narrative of human frailty that pits the desire for personal happiness against the necessity of meeting moral standards.

Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You
Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You

Author: Dan Riskin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-03-04

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1476767130

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A fun exploration of the darker side of the natural world reveals the fascinating, weird, often perverted ways that Mother Nature fends only for herself. It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin (cohost of Discovery Canada’s Daily Planet) explains, it’s also a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one. At every turn, it seems, living things are trying to eat us, poison us, use our bodies as their homes, or have us spread their eggs. In Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You, Riskin is our guide through the natural world at its most gloriously ruthless. Using the seven deadly sins as a road map, Riskin offers dozens of jaw-dropping examples that illuminate how brutal nature can truly be. From slothful worms that hide in your body for up to thirty years to wrathful snails with poisonous harpoons that can kill you in less than five minutes to lustful ducks that have orgasms faster than you can blink, these fascinating accounts reveal the candid truth about “gentle” Mother Nature’s true colors. Riskin’s passion for the strange and his enthusiastic expertise bring Earth’s most fascinating flora and fauna into vivid focus. Through his adventures— which include sliding on his back through a thick soup of bat guano just to get face-to-face with a vampire bat, befriending a parasitic maggot that has taken root on his head, and coming to grips with having offspring of his own—Riskin makes unexpected discoveries not just about the world all around us but also about the ways this brutal world has shaped us as humans and what our responsibilities are to this terrible, wonderful planet we call home.

The Home Place
The Home Place

Author: J. Drew Lanham

Publisher: Milkweed Editions

Published: 2016-08-22

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1571318755

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“A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape, and a deep meditation on nature…wise and beautiful.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk A Foreword Reviews Best Book of the Year and Nautilus Silver Award Winner In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place “easy to pass by on the way somewhere else”—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity.” By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a meditation on nature and belonging by an ornithologist and professor of ecology, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South—and in America today. “When you’re done with The Home Place, it won’t be done with you. Its wonders will linger like everything luminous.”—Star Tribune “A lyrical story about the power of the wild…synthesizes his own family history, geography, nature, and race into a compelling argument for conservation and resilience.”—National Geographic

Mother Nature
Mother Nature

Author: Jamie Lee Curtis

Publisher: Titan Comics

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1787740994

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Discover the incredible debut graphic novel from Academy Award-winning Hollywood horror legend Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween, Everything Everywhere All At Once) and Russell Goldman and illustrated by award-winning artist Karl Stevens. After witnessing her engineer father die in mysterious circumstances on one of the Cobalt Corporation’s experimental oil extraction projects, Nova Terrell has grown up to hate the seemingly benevolent company that the town of Catch Creek, New Mexico relies on for its livelihood and, thanks to the “Mother Nature” project, its clean water. Haunted by her father’s death, the rebellious Nora wages a campaign of sabotage and vandalism on the oil giant’s facilities and equipment, until one night she makes a terrifying discovery about the true nature of the “Mother Nature” project and the malevolent, long-dormant horror it has awakened, which threatens to destroy them all…

Ask Mother Nature
Ask Mother Nature

Author: Ellen Vande Visse

Publisher: Findhorn Press

Published: 2009-04-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781844091638

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Functioning as a spiritual-development manual as well as a beginner's gardening guide, this informative reference teaches gardeners how to bring the angelic dimension of cocreation into their green thumb work by communicating directly with nature. A plentiful supply of earthy examples in the form of first-person narratives spell out the steps necessary to garden in conscious cooperation with joyful devas and nature spirits, such as allowing gardeners to consult with pests before waging chemical warfare and to seek approval from trees and shrubs before making drastic cuts. The fun, simple strategies showcased in the guide--including sections on fertilizer and compost, plus tips about specific vegetables, soils, and insects--do not require psychic abilities or meditation skills to bring forth the continual miracles that will maximize a garden's potential. Appendices include a who's-who of devas and nature spirits and a short review of the classic Findhorn Garden story.

Assuming the Ecosexual Position
Assuming the Ecosexual Position

Author: Annie Sprinkle

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2021-08-17

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 145296579X

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The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth What’s sexy about saving the planet? Funny you should ask. Because that is precisely—or, perhaps, broadly—what Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens have spent many years bringing to light in their live art, exhibitions, and films. In 2008, Sprinkle and Stephens married the Earth, which set them on the path to explore the realms of ecosexuality as they became lovers with the Earth and made their mutual pleasure an embodied expression of passion for the environment. Ever since, they have been not just pushing but obliterating the boundaries circumscribing biology and ecology, creating ecosexual art in their performance of an environmentalism that is feminist, queer, sensual, sexual, posthuman, materialist, exuberant, and steeped in humor. Assuming the Ecosexual Position tells of childhood moments that pointed to a future of ecosexuality—for Annie, in her family swimming pool in Los Angeles; for Beth, savoring forbidden tomatoes from the vine on her grandparents’ Appalachian farm. The book describes how the two came together as lovers and collaborators, how they took a stand against homophobia and xenophobia, and how this union led to the miraculous conception of the Love Art Laboratory, which involved influential performance artists Linda M. Montano, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and feminist pornographer Madison Young. Stephens and Sprinkle share the process of making interactive performance art, including the Chemo Fashion Show, Cuddle, Sidewalk Sex Clinics, and Ecosex Walking Tours. Over the years, they celebrated many more weddings to various nature entities, from the Appalachian Mountains to the Adriatic Sea. To create these weddings, they collaborated with hundreds of people and invited thousands of guests as they vowed to love, honor, and cherish the many elements of the Earth. As entertaining as it is deeply serious, and arriving at a perilous time of sharp differences and constricting categories, the story of this artistic collaboration between Sprinkle, Stephens, their diverse communities, and the Earth opens gender and sexuality, art and environmentalism, to the infinite possibilities and promise of love.

Love Letters from Mother Earth
Love Letters from Mother Earth

Author: Anneloes Smitsman

Publisher: Waterfront Digital Press

Published: 2017-10-25

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781945949821

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Love Letters from Mother Earth was written by Anneloes Smitsman to take us into the heart of our humanity to discover our story from a new perspective. Through these Letters, people receive the wisdom and support that our planet, as a caring and conscious Mother, shares for our collective flourishing. These thirteen Letters have been carefully composed via a process of inspired writing and listening deeply to Mother Earth s message for us. Together these thirteen Letters form a sacred design that is like a living map for the actualization of our collective wisdom potentials. With this map, we become more conscious of the designs of our inner and outer worlds, gaining a new perspective and a more integrated understanding. By reviewing the many chapters of our collective story through the eyes of our planetary Mother and our Sun, we discover how we hold the keys for our individual and collective actualization within the very fabric of our beings. Becoming more aware of our wisdom potentials, within the living context of our interrelatedness, empowers us to bridge and integrate what became divided and polarized long ago. Returning to our wholeness, we then discover the keys to our inner and outer healing, and start to see the root causes of the thousands of years of divisions that created so much suffering. Mother Earth reminds us in these Letters that a new cycle of time is being born through our integration, based on Love and wholeness. Through this new cycle, we create together the next chapter of Our Story.