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Author: Jane Goodall
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 82
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook is being used by the Four Worlds Development Project to eliminate widespread drug and alcohol abuse in tribal communities. It is now being shared for the first time with all members of the human family desiring personal growth."--Publisher's description.
Author: Nathaniel Altman
Publisher: Gaupo Publishing
Published: 2017-03-12
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780997972023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the dawn of history, trees have played a central role in the survival of humanity and the flowering of myriad cultures. Not surprisingly, people the world over have revered trees for their life-giving and life-affirming nature. But modern societies have lost touch with that sense of reverence. Sacred Trees rekindles a once-broadly felt kinship with the natural world. Through vivid history and myth drawn from hundreds of the world's cultures- from the ancient Egyptians and the Druids of early Britain to today's indigenous Hawaiians- Nathaniel Altman reveals the special relationship people have always shared with trees. Here are cosmic trees of the Norse, regarded as the symbol of universal life, the ancestral trees of ancient Rome, seen as the birthplace of humankind, and the biblical tree of knowledge, responsible for the fall of humanity. Richly illustrated, Sacred Trees offers us the devotion that traditional cultures have shown towards trees and teaches us that respect, reverence, and communion with the rest of nature are essential for the healing of Mother Earth.
Author: Moyra Caldecott
Publisher: Destiny Books
Published: 1993-09-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780892814145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssential to life on earth since the beginning of time, trees hold a special place in our collective consciousness: rooted in the earth, reaching skyward, nourished by the elements, and enlivened by the sap running through their veins, they provide a metaphor for what it means to be human. Moyra Caldecott has gathered here a collection of myths celebrating the rich symbolism of trees, all bringing to life a time when the natural world was deeply respected and trees and forests were thought to be inhabited by spirits and divine beings. Bound by the organized structure of modern life, the human spirit yearns for the wildness and freedom of primal nature represented by forests in their natural state. Caldecott's book has captured and given voice to this spirit.
Author: Judie Bopp
Publisher: Lotus Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9780941524582
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Author: Mrs. J. H. Philpot
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 210
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. T. Mann
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781402767319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores our relationship with the archetypal tree, a central theme throughout human civilization, expressed through religion, myth, and culture. Mann also investigates the physical and healing properties of trees and their importance to life itself--especially in today's age of environmental fragility. --From publisher description.
Author: Mariana Giovino
Publisher: Saint-Paul
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9783525530283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevised thesis (doctoral) - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004.
Author: John Vaillant
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: 2009-03-18
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0307371328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION • WINNER OF THE WRITERS’ TRUST NON-FICTION PRIZE “Absolutely spellbinding.” —The New York Times The environmental true-crime story of a glorious natural wonder, the man who destroyed it, and the fascinating, troubling context in which this act took place. FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR On a winter night in 1997, a British Columbia timber scout named Grant Hadwin committed an act of shocking violence in the mythic Queen Charlotte Islands. His victim was legendary: a unique 300-year-old Sitka spruce tree, fifty metres tall and covered with luminous golden needles. In a bizarre environmental protest, Hadwin attacked the tree with a chainsaw. Two days later, it fell, horrifying an entire community. Not only was the golden spruce a scientific marvel and a tourist attraction, it was sacred to the Haida people and beloved by local loggers. Shortly after confessing to the crime, Hadwin disappeared under suspicious circumstances and is missing to this day. As John Vaillant deftly braids together the strands of this thrilling mystery, he brings to life the ancient beauty of the coastal wilderness, the historical collision of Europeans and the Haida, and the harrowing world of logging—the most dangerous land-based job in North America.
Author: Albertina Nugteren
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-08-14
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 9047415612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study is focused on the interaction of material and symbolic values in the domain of sacred trees in India. By presenting samples from 3,000 years of Indian ritual practice, it is shown that in many sacred geographies trees continue to connect the present with the past, the material with the symbolic, and the contemporary ecological with the traditionally sacred. Although in India religion may have become very much a temple cult, its embeddedness in the natural world enhances today's 'green' interpretation of religious traditions. That in environmental matters such religious inspiration may be both successful and highly ambivalent at the same time is the thought-provoking position taken in the final chapters.
Author: Christine Zucchelli
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781848892774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the stories and legends of Ireland's sacred trees and reveals their spiritual, social, and historical functions from pagan times to the present. Color photos.
