Quotation by William D. Ruckelshaus, first Environmental Protection Agency Chief Administrator

"Using one discipline to address the environment isn't going to work.  You have to use them all."  ---William D. Ruckelshaus, first Environmental Protection Agency chief Administrator, 1970-1973, also 1983-85, speaking to "Living on Earth," broadcast through Public Radio International

Reviews of the Book

"Until the publication . . . of Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, those searching for an overview of the field had few texts to which they might turn .... "

-Rochelle Johnson in Thoreau Society Bulletin for Fall 2008

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Remarks by the Publisher:

"A comprehensive guide to environmental literacy."

 

Selected as a 2008 AAUP University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries.

Events

- Professor James Engell to teach a DuPont Seminar at the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, on Environmental issues and the humanities ...
- Professor Glenn Adelson to attend the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) meeting ...

Video Focus

Chapter 16: The Inner Life (no headnote) PDF Print E-mail

 

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Selections in this chapter:

  • From Mundaka Upanishad, translated by Sanderson Beck, [562] Go
  • The Bible, Matthew 6:24 –34, [565] Go
  • Udana IV.5, “Naga Sutta” (“The Bull Elephant”), translated by John D. Ireland, [565] Go
  • From the Iroquois Creation Story, as told in David Cusick, Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (1827), [567] Go
  • Francis of Assisi, “The Canticle of Brother Sun” (twelfth-thirteenth century C.E.), translated by Benen Fahy, O.F.M., [569] Go
  • Chief Seattle, from “Chief Seattle’s Speech” (reconstructed 1887 [1854]), [571] Go
  • Lynn White, Jr., from “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis” in Machina Ex Deo: Essays in the Dynamism of Western Culture (1968), [573] Go
  • Wendell Berry, from “The Gift of Good Land” in The Gift of Good Land (1981), [575] Go
  • Seyyed Hossein Nasr, “Sacred Science and the Environmental Crisis—An Islamic Perspective” (1993), [580] Go
  • Tu Wei-Ming, “The Continuity of Being: Chinese Visions of Nature” (1984), [584] Go
  • Phyllis Windle, from “The Ecology of Grief” (1995), [589] Go

 

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