Even Mountains Vanish
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.47 (960 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0874807719 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Terrific!" according to Laura Pritchett. Thoughtful and engaging - this is a smart book that examines our relationship with the natural world -- and it takes on the question of how to find solace in times that can seem bleak - how to feel ALIVE in an age of extinction. This is a searching, seeking sort of book -- and it's a pleasure to embark on such a journey with the author.
Changing tactics, she brings her inquiry to Rocky Mountain National Park and Canada's Arctic coast, cold and elevated places of clarity and conviction. Campbell researches everything from plate tectonics to sandhill cranes to Pueblo cultures to nuclear waste until a flash flood inundates her university's library. As Campbell, beset with ecological and spiritual blues, ponders the survival strategies of tundra plants, animals, and people, she struggles to come to terms with human destructiveness and the transitoriness of life, and does so with good sense and thrilling lyricism. From Booklist Campbell faces the same paradox every nature writer confronts in this age of accelerated extinctions: whenever she contemplates the beauty of the cosmos and the astonishing inventiveness of nature-- from lichen to ponderosa pines, yellow-bellied marmots to white-
Spurred by curiosity, despair, and an analytical mind, she wanders from Colorado to New Mexico to Canada’s arctic coast investigating not only facts and data, but also the mystery that lies below the surface. . All life is kin. But scale matters. When I focus on smaller things, the picture changes."—from the bookSitting on a mesa above the Rio Grande, her back pressed against the remnants of eons-old volcanic eruptions and her thoughts drawn to the unavoidable significance of the laboratories at Los Alamos a few miles away, an idea plants itself in SueEllen Campbell’s mind. So are fear and hatred, passion and compassion. Ours is an age of extinctions; ours are the hands of the destroyers. Different eyes perceive different worlds, and much remains hidden. "The