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 ...

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Chapter 18: Poetry (no headnote) PDF Print E-mail

 

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Selections in this chapter:

  • Lucretius, “Alma Venus” from De rerum natura (first century B.C.E.), translated by James Engell, [624] Go
  • Tu Fu, “A Traveler at Night Writes His Thoughts” (eighth century C.E.), translated by Burton Watson, [625] Go
  • Wang Wei, “Stopping by the Temple of Incense Massed” (eighth century C.E.), translated by Stephen Owen, [626] Go
  • Meng Jiao, “A Visit to the South Mountains” (eighth-ninth century C.E.), translated by Stephen Owen, [627] Go
  • Matsuo Basho, “You Summer Grasses!” and “Into the Old Pond” (seventeenth century C.E.), translated by Daniel C. Buchanan, [628] Go
  • Navajo Songs, from “Beautyway” (traditional), [629] Go
  • William Wordsworth, “Nutting” (1798), [631] Go
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison” (1797), [634] Go
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mont Blanc” (1816), [636] Go
  • Robert Frost, “Spring Pools” (1928), [641] Go
  • Wallace Stevens, “The Planet on the Table” (1953), [642] Go
  • A. R. Ammons, “Corsons Inlet” (1965), [643] Go
  • Mary Oliver, “The Kingfisher” (1990), [646] Go


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