UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies (E-Journal - York University)
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the thorn
Get PDFit seems like sacrilegefor a manwith hands gnarled like a jack pine,cracked and knotty,to be holding the garden sylphs.
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Crossing Boundaries with Instinct
Get PDFThe mythtellers understood that the natural world is full of discrete beings, each entity differentiated from the rest of the world. They knew, probably better than we do, that a living thing acquires its energy by means of exchanges across a boundary, so that the living thing remains distinct from its environment, yet interacts continuously with it. [...
Outward Bound
Get PDFI could choose to rest, to glory inthe smooth glacial slopes of isolationmy form reflected on the arctic's deepI could abide on ice floes glowing[...
Doors
Get PDFWalking down the middle of the street at midnight, I can smell distinctly the mustiness where the air from the river has risen. [...
Coyote Catches the Light
Get PDFCoyote came down from the mountainswalked over the hillscame to the edge of the mesa
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Purple Loosestrife and the "Bounding" of Nature in North American Wetlands
No full textOne of the more well known themes among the Christian parables is the separation of the righteous and pure from the impure and the unholy. In one notable example, Christ recounts the experience of a farmer whose enemies have come in the night to plant weeds in his wheat field. [...
Science and the Paradox of Harmony
Get PDFOne night not long ago I attended a meeting of the faculty and Ph.D. students in MIT's Planning Department. One professor spoke of the impressive ability of his colleagues to generate and publish case studies. But the problem is, he said, despite the apparent success of each study, the general situation of society and ecology grows steadily worse.
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