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Cincinnati Arch: Learning from Nature in the City
John Tallmadge
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Description for Cincinnati Arch: Learning from Nature in the City
Paperback. New to the city, Tallmadge saw only its concrete, glass, smog, and debris, until he focused on the "buzzing, flapping, scurrying, chewing, photosynthesizing life forms" around him. This is a hopeful guide to finding nature and balance in unlikely places. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; JFSG; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 281.
New to the city, Tallmadge saw only its concrete, glass, smog, and debris. Soon his interest, stirred by the wonder of his children at their new surroundings, focused Tallmadge to the ""buzzing, flapping, scurrying, chewing, photosynthesizing life forms"" around him. More deeply, Tallmadge began to learn from, and not just about, the city. Nature's persistence - within him and wherever he looked - wore away at old notions of wilderness that made no allowances for human culture. The ""arch"" of the book's title is richly resonant: as the name of a geologic formation molding the urban landscape Tallmadge comes to ... Read more
New to the city, Tallmadge saw only its concrete, glass, smog, and debris. Soon his interest, stirred by the wonder of his children at their new surroundings, focused Tallmadge to the ""buzzing, flapping, scurrying, chewing, photosynthesizing life forms"" around him. More deeply, Tallmadge began to learn from, and not just about, the city. Nature's persistence - within him and wherever he looked - wore away at old notions of wilderness that made no allowances for human culture. The ""arch"" of the book's title is richly resonant: as the name of a geologic formation molding the urban landscape Tallmadge comes to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820326900
SKU
V9780820326900
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About John Tallmadge
John Tallmadge is Core Professor of Literature and Environmental Studies at the Graduate College of Union Institute and University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of Meeting the Tree of Life, and his work has appeared in such publications as Audubon and Orion.
Reviews for Cincinnati Arch: Learning from Nature in the City
What wilderness lover, asks John Tallmadge, ""would ever dream of settling deep in the Rust Belt astride polluted rivers?"" The Cincinnati Arch holds the provocative answer to Tallmadge's question, which was prompted by his unplanned relocation from rural Minnesota to urban Ohio. Tallmadge tells of dismaying early encounters with the city's seeming barrenness, his growing awareness of its vitality and ... Read more