Thoreau And The Language Of Trees

Author : Richard Higgins
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520967311

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Thoreau and the Language of Trees by Richard Higgins Pdf

Trees were central to Henry David Thoreau’s creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his thought, and his inner life. His portraits of them were so perfect, it was as if he could see the sap flowing beneath their bark. When Thoreau wrote that the poet loves the pine tree as his own shadow in the air, he was speaking about himself. In short, he spoke their language. In this original book, Richard Higgins explores Thoreau’s deep connections to trees: his keen perception of them, the joy they gave him, the poetry he saw in them, his philosophical view of them, and how they fed his soul. His lively essays show that trees were a thread connecting all parts of Thoreau’s being—heart, mind, and spirit. Included are one hundred excerpts from Thoreau’s writings about trees, paired with over sixty of the author’s photographs. Thoreau’s words are as vivid now as they were in 1890, when an English naturalist wrote that he was unusually able to “to preserve the flashing forest colors in unfading light.” Thoreau and the Language of Trees shows that Thoreau, with uncanny foresight, believed trees were essential to the preservation of the world.

Author : David George Haskell
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781863959261

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The Songs of Trees by David George Haskell Pdf

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781634504782

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Thoreau on Nature by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

“How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!” —Henry David Thoreau Since his death in 1862, Henry David Thoreau has left an indelible mark on the American mind. A vocal champion of simple living and social equality, he is revered for his tempered prose, gentle words, and wise observations. His most well-known work, Walden, is still read around the world, cherished for both its beautiful writing style and its timeless musings on life, simple living, and nature. Collected in Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World are some of Thoreau’s most impactful musings—drawn from the many writings he completed over his lifetime. His work touched on every aspect of living a harmonious life, from respecting your neighbors, whether human or animal, to the joys of a simplified life, free of clutter and distractions. Thoreau on Nature will undoubtedly be an essential resource for anyone seeking to find peace and balance in life.

Author : Craig R. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781527592926

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Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime, 2nd Edition by Craig R. Smith Pdf

Relying on the author’s established expertise in rhetoric and political communication, this book re-contextualizes Romantic rhetorical theory from the late 18th and early 19th centuries to provide a foundation for a Neo-Romantic rhetorical theory for our own time. In the process, it uses a unique methodology to correct misconceptions about the rhetorical theories of many writers. Using a dialectical approach, the early chapters trace Romanticism through its opposition to the industrial revolution and the Enlightenment, back through Humanism and its opposition to Scholasticism, to its roots in St. Augustine’s writing. These chapters include a revisionist analysis of the church’s treatment of Galileo in the course of showing how difficult it was for scientific study to be accepted in Scholastic circles. The study goes on to argue that Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, and Edmund Burke were bridge figures to the Romantic Era. This move throws new light on exemplary painters, composers, writers and orators of the Romantic Era, who are examined in chapters eight and nine. Chapter ten focuses on Percy Bysshe Shelley and his development of the rhetorical poem, and thereby provides a new genre in the Romantic catalogue. Chapter Eleven turns to the Romantic rhetorical theories of Hugh Blair and Thomas De Quincey to empower those seeking to save the environment. The concluding chapter then synthesizes their theories with relevant contemporary rhetorical theories thereby constructing a Neo-Romantic theory for our own time. In the process, the book links the Romantics’ love of nature to the current environmental crisis.

Author : Craig R. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781527521148

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Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime by Craig R. Smith Pdf

Relying on the author’s established expertise in rhetorical theory and political communication, this book re-contextualizes Romantic rhetorical theory in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to provide a foundation for a Neo-Romantic rhetorical theory for our own time. In the process, it uses a unique methodology to correct misconceptions about many Romantic writers. The methodology of the early chapters uses a dialectical approach to trace Romanticism and its opposition, the Enlightenment, back through Humanism and its opposition, Scholasticism, to St. Augustine. These chapters include a revisionist analysis of the church’s treatment of Galileo in the course of showing how difficult it was for scientific study to be accepted in the academic world. The study also re-conceptualizes Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, and Edmund Burke as bridge figures to the Romantic Era instead of as Enlightenment figures. This move throws new light on the major artists of the Romantic Era, who are examined in chapters seven and eight. Chapter nine focuses on Percy Bysshe Shelley and his development of the rhetorical poem, and thereby provides a new genre in the Romantic catalogue. Chapter ten uses the foregoing to analyse and reconceptualize the rhetorical theories of Hugh Blair and Thomas De Quincey. The concluding chapter then synthesizes their theories with relevant contemporary rhetorical theories thereby constructing a Neo-Romantic theory for our own time. In the process, this book links the Romantics’ love of nature to the current environmental crisis.

Author : James Perrin Warren
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813949499

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Thoreau’s Botany by James Perrin Warren Pdf

Thoreau’s last years have been the subject of debate for decades, but only recently have scholars and critics begun to appreciate the posthumous publications, unfinished manuscripts, and Journal entries that occupied the writer after Walden (1854). Until now, no critical reader has delved deeply enough into botany to see how Thoreau’s plant studies impact his thinking and writing. Thoreau’s Botany moves beyond general literary appreciation for the botanical works to apply Thoreau’s extensive studies of botany—from 1850 to his death in 1862—to readings of his published and unpublished works in fresh, interdisciplinary ways. Bringing together critical plant studies, ecocriticism, and environmental humanities, James Perrin Warren argues that Thoreau’s botanical excursions establish a meeting ground of science and the humanities that is only now ready to be recognized by readers of American literature and environmental literature.

Author : Gordon V. Boudreau
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press (TN)
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Nature in literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106009645331

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The Roots of Walden and the Tree of Life by Gordon V. Boudreau Pdf

Author : John Jantsch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119579755

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The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur by John Jantsch Pdf

A guide for creating a deeper relationship with the entrepreneurial journey The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur offers overworked and harried entrepreneurs, and anyone who thinks like one, a much-needed guide for tapping into the wisdom that is most relevant to the entrepreneurial life. The book is filled with inspirational meditations that contain the thoughts and writings of notable American authors. Designed as a daily devotional, it is arranged in a calendar format, and features readings of transcendentalist literature and others. Each of The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur meditations is followed by a reflection and a challenging question from John Jantsch. He draws on his lifetime of experience as a successful coach for small business and startup leaders to offer an entrepreneurial context. Jantsch shows how entrepreneurs can learn to trust their ideas and overcome the doubt and fear of everyday challenges. The book contains: A unique guide to meditations, especially designed for entrepreneurs A range of topics such as self-awareness, trust, creativity, resilience, failure, growth, freedom, love, integrity, and passion An inspirational meditation for each day of the year. . . including leap year Reflections from John Jantsch, small business marketing expert and the author of the popular book Duct Tape Marketing Written for entrepreneurs, as well anyone seeking to find a deeper meaning in their work and life, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur is a practical handbook for anyone seeking to embrace the practice of self-trust.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Walking by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jerome McGann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226818467

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Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes by Jerome McGann Pdf

Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period. Classic American literature, Jerome McGann argues, is haunted by the betrayal of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Indian treaties—“a stunned memory preserved in the negative spaces of the treaty records.” A noted scholar of the “textual conditions” of literature, McGann investigates canonical works from the colonial period, including the Arbella sermon and key writings of William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Cotton Mather’s Magnalia, Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated treaty folios and Autobiography, and Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. These are highly practical, purpose-driven works—the record of Enlightenment dreams put to the severe test of dangerous conditions. McGann suggests that the treaty-makers never doubted the unsettled character of what they were prosecuting, and a similar conflicted ethos pervades these works. Like the treaty records, they deliberately test themselves against stringent measures of truth and accomplishment and show a distinctive consciousness of their limits and failures. McGann’s book is ultimately a reminder of the public importance of truth and memory—the vocational commitments of humanist scholars and educators.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300223767

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Thoreau's Animals by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

"From Thoreau's renowned Journal, a treasury of memorable, funny, and sharply observed accounts of the wild and domestic animals of Concord."--Front flap.

Author : Henry D. Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993-03
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003398224

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Faith in a Seed by Henry D. Thoreau Pdf

Thoreau's last important research and writing projects, published here for the first time, draws on Darwin's theory of natural selection to describe plant ecology.

Author : Jim Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Katahdin, Mount (Me.)
ISBN : 0395605229

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Into the Deep Forest with Henry David Thoreau by Jim Murphy Pdf

Describes one of Thoreau's trips to the Maine wilderness, based on his own writings.

Author : Gill Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : 1849311552

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The Secret Language of Trees by Gill Davies Pdf

As well as offering wood and charcoal fuels, timber for buildings and ships, latex rubber, dyes, shade, shelter from the weather, fruits and nuts to enjoy and poisons to avoid, trees provide the world with oxygen while their roots stabilize soil to prevent flooding and erosion. Moreover, bark, roots, leaves, flowers, fruits or seeds also offer medicinal products. Meanwhile, the forest has ever been a magical place inspiring writers and poets such as C S Lewis, J R R Tolkien, Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Coleridge. The Secret Language of Trees explores fifty different species of tree. It looks at the history of the tree, its medicinal and other uses, as well as its language meaning and symbolism. Each entry is supported by a beautiful watercolour of the tree itself as well as its leaves or fruit.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781387942824

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The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

Over a period of three years, Henry David Thoreau made three trips to the largely unexplored woods of Maine. He scaled peaks, paddled a canoe, and dined on hemlock tea and moose lips. Taking notes, he acutely observed the rich flora and fauna, as well as the few people he met dotting the landscape, like lumberers, boat-men, and the Abnaki Indians. The Maine Woods is an American classic, a voyage into nature and the heart of early America.