Natural State: A Literary Anthology of California Nature Writing
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Where it's heading I do not know. It passes in front of the porch like a shifting cloud.
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If I stare at it long enough, it seems that I start to move instead. I imagine our farmhouse cutting through the gray mist like a lost ship, my porch transformed into the bridge.
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Unfortunately, while the fog is still rolling in, so are the subdivisions. California farmland is now sinking beneath them at such a rate that the Central Valley has earned the American Farmland Trust's designation as the nation's number one most threatened agricultural area.
Nor does Los Angeles smog go unrepresented. All this delights the eye, the mind, the heart, with romantic geometries and the pride of home. But not for long.
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Gradually all those remarkable harmonies and differences of texture fade and flatten, while a horizon of spectral murk advances That was LA smog in the s, to be improved by later clean air laws, improvements now being canceled out by - you guessed it - population growth. Natural State has an eloquent afterword by Gary Snyder, advocating "a non-nationalistic idea of community, in which commitment to pure place is paramount [and] cannot be ethnic or racist.
He met a marvellous woman too and the antidepressant drugs helped but his book sings with love and wonder as much as it brilliantly interrogates the power of the natural world to make us feel good. Nature is red in tooth and claw but the naked ape is the most fearsome species of all. A student textbook so well written that anyone would benefit from reading it who wanted to know how the natural world fits together and operates in the relentless truth of evolution.
The influence of natural selection on behaviour makes for some of the greatest stories imaginable: Cheating by Nature has just published a superb account of one of the most extraordinary evolutionary arms races that we know about.
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Non-human nature reads the world in a different way. Meanwhile poets have done as much as scientists to give a kind of voice to non-human life. Richard Long , The outside world brought indoors between the covers of a book as only the artist Richard Long can. His records of his walks — lines scratched by his boots into the earth, stone circles raised on mountain sides, text accounts of birds heard and pebbles carried — show him to be a great modernist in dialogue with the timeless raw material of nature.
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