A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (526 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0132105764 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 335 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Rice Odell has written many books and articles on the environment, including Environmental Awakening. He is the former editor of the Conservation Foundation Letter.. Barbara K. Rodes is Director of Library Services at the World Wildlife Fund. She has coauthored and contributed to a number of books on environm
"Excellent Tool for Awakening your Environmental Energy" according to Mark Joyous. Thoughtfulness in Vitamin Form - Great Bathroom book - flip it open anywhere & find powerful thoughts & quotes to get your mind into synergy with Nature gear - From an old Park Ranger to anyone caring for the Earth - Read it & Take action!. Nothing like it! I have been using the 1992 edition since it first came out. It has been extremely useful when I was a park ranger for just the right quote for my ranger programs. Very, very thorough. Arranged by general subject headings but the detailed subject index in the book's back is additional help. Also has an author index. Highly recommended.. Great Quotes! A Customer The perfect addition to my boyfriends library - Although he probably knows all the quotes anyway!
It is at once stimulating, entertaining, and enlightening, with quotations that provide a complete range of human thought about nature and the environment. The Dictionary of Environmental Quotations will delight, provoke, and inform readers. "Three months of camp life on Lake Tahoe would restore an Egyptian mummy to his pristine vigor, and give him an appetite like an alligator. The Dictionary of Environmental Quotations presents a sweeping look at the history of environmentalism as well as the issues and topics that are debated today. The air up there in
The compilers have drawn approximately 3700 quotations from proverbs, slogans, bumper stickers, speeches, periodicals, scientific papers, and philosophical works. While books such as The Norton Book of Nature Writing (LJ 3/1/90) and John Terres's Things Precious and Wild (Fulcrum, 1991) have focused on nature writings, Rodes and Odell have produced a much more comprehensive volume of quotations on the environment, which by simple definition is the earth, air, water, and resources and their interconnection with an organism. --Eva Lautemann, Dekalb Coll. . This unique, well