Wisdom from a Rainforest

2015-03-15 Social Science

Author : Stuart A. Schlegel
Release : 2015-03-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 585/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Wisdom from a Rainforest written by Stuart A. Schlegel. This book was released on 2015-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early sixties, Stuart Schlegel went into a remote rainforest on the Philippine island of Mindanao as an anthropologist in search of material. What he found was a group of people whose tolerant, gentle way of life would transform his own values and beliefs profoundly. Wisdom from a Rainforest is Schlegel's testament to his experience and to the Teduray people of Figel, from whom he learned such vital, lasting lessons. Schlegel's lively ethnography of the Teduray portrays how their behavior and traditions revolved around kindness and compassion for humans, animals, and the spirits sharing their worlds. Schlegel describes the Teduray's remarkable legal system and their strong story-telling tradition, their elaborate cosmology, and their ritual celebrations. At the same time, Schlegel recounts his own transformation—how his worldview as a member of an advanced, civilized society was shaken to the core by a so-called primitive people. He begins to realize how culturally determined his own values are and to see with great clarity how much the Teduray can teach him about gender equality, tolerance for difference, generosity, and cooperation. By turns funny, tender, and gripping, Wisdom from a Rainforest honors the Teduray's legacy and helps us see how much we can learn from a way of life so different from our own.

The Wisdom of Trees

2021-03-02 Juvenile Nonfiction

Author : Lita Judge
Release : 2021-03-02
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 240/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Wisdom of Trees written by Lita Judge. This book was released on 2021-03-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With lush illustrations, poems, and accessible scientific information, The Wisdom of Trees by Lita Judge is a fascinating exploration of the hidden communities trees create to strengthen themselves and others. We clean the air and seed the clouds, we drench the thirsty land with rain. We are like wizards. The story of a tree is a story of community, communication, and cooperation. Although trees may seem like silent, independent organisms, they form a network buzzing with life: they talk, share food, raise their young, and offer protection. Trees thrive on diversity, learn from their ancestors, and give back to their communities. Trees not only sustain life on our planet—they can also teach us important lessons about patience, survival, and teamwork. A New York Public Library Best Book of 2021 A New York Public Library Top Ten Book for Kids

Rain Forest Wisdom

2013 Nature

Author : Andrew Grant
Release : 2013
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 194/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Rain Forest Wisdom written by Andrew Grant. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With renewed interest in man's primal antecedents, [the book] offers a wealth of examples of the gorilla's behavior and what that tells us about being human--from low-fat, high protein diet, to caring for the young to group dynamics and even leadership.

Finding the Mother Tree

2021-05-04 Science

Author : Suzanne Simard
Release : 2021-05-04
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 103/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Finding the Mother Tree written by Suzanne Simard. This book was released on 2021-05-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. In this, her first book, now available in paperback, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths--that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. Simard writes--in inspiring, illuminating, and accessible ways—how trees, living side by side for hundreds of years, have evolved, how they learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication, characteristics ascribed to human intelligence, traits that are the essence of civil societies--and at the center of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. And Simard writes of her own life, born and raised into a logging world in the rainforests of British Columbia, of her days as a child spent cataloging the trees from the forest and how she came to love and respect them. And as she writes of her scientific quest, she writes of her own journey, making us understand how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology, that it is about understanding who we are and our place in the world.

A Leaf of Honey and the Proverbs of the Rainforest

1988 Religion

Author : Joseph Sheppherd
Release : 1988
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book A Leaf of Honey and the Proverbs of the Rainforest written by Joseph Sheppherd. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this sensitive presentation of Cameroonian Ntumu village life, Joseph Sheppherd affirms the tribesmen's right to maintain their distinctiveness and their own values. During his years in the jungle, he discovered that these tribesmen have something unique to offer the rest of mankind.... A Leaf of Honey is both a voyage of self-discovery and a journey into another society, a different reality, where daily life is informed by the wisdom of tradition and by the proverbs of the rain forest."--Survival International (Cover).

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