Marcia Bonta is a naturalist-writer who has lived for decades on a five-hundred-acre mountaintop farm in Central Pennsylvania. In Appalachian Spring, the intricacies of the season unravel day by day in journal entries that combine Bonta's own meticulous observations with the research reported by botanists, entomologists, and other natural scientists.
Every aspect of the natural world catches her eye, from the life cycle of a tent caterpillar to the sex life of jack-in-the pulpit. She hopes, by recounting such wonders, to convert others to what she calls the "third stage" in humanity's relationship with nature, that of empathy with all of nature for its own sake: "To know the earth better, to grasp a little of its workings, to look on it with awe and wonder as well as with respect, is to want to save it from destruction."
| ISBN: | 9780822954422 |
| Publication date: | 14th March 1991 |
| Author: | Marcia Bonta |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Series: | Regional |
| Genres: |
The Earth: natural history: general interest Ecological science, the Biosphere Mountains and uplands Applied ecology Local history History of the Americas |
Marcia Bonta is a naturalist-writer who has lived for decades on a five-hundred-acre mountaintop farm in Central Pennsylvania. In Appalachian Spring, the intricacies of the season unravel day by day in journal entries that combine Bonta's own meticulous observations with the research reported by botanists, entomologists, and other natural scientists.Every aspect of the natural world catches her eye, from the life cycle of a tent caterpillar to the sex life of jack-in-the pulpit.
Appalachian Spring features in the following genres: The Earth: natural history: general interest, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Mountains and uplands, Applied ecology, Local history, History of the Americas
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Appalachian Spring was written by Marcia Bonta and published by University of Pittsburgh Press
Appalachian Spring has 208 pages
Yes it is part of Regional series
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