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Bezig met laden... Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives―and Save Theirs (editie 2020)door Richard Louv (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkOur Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives and Save Theirs door Richard Louv
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 3.5 A book that contains a large amount of information. I actually read a few chapters at a time, which I feel is the best way to absorb everything within. Animals, wild and domestic are integral to not only nature but our lives. Our connection is integral to our well being, to our ecological system and a necessary enrichment in our lives. I loved the personal stories, people that connected with an animal, or in one instance, ants that awakened their interest in nature. Comfort animals, animals that help those with various difficulties, endangered animals due to changing habitats and those already irradiated, made extinct by our lack of care. The growth of electronic media, which serves to separate us from each other and the natural world. Just a small sampling of what this important, vital book contains. "Some of us think, all of us feel." Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. As a fan of Richard Louv, I was looking forward to this book. Once again, Louv has immersed readers in a text that connects humans with the natural world. Louv is effective in helping readers rethink their connection with animals and the natural world. Told through interviews providing a wide range of perspectives, Louv demonstrates the need for compassionate conservation practices that consider the needs of both humans and animals. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. Our Wild Calling explores human's connections with animals - and how these connections can help humans better understand how to live in our world. The book is filled with stories of human-to-animal connections - from a brief encounter with a fox on a trail to reptiles in a wildlife park. It's a reminder that we are all connected to each other, despite the "species loneliness" that humans are now succumbing too. That can be rectified, though. Louv shows that we can take a walk, hug a tree, visit a zoo, sit on our front porch - and be less lonely and part of our world.I found the book's organization to be difficult to read through (as noted by other reviewers); otherwise, I would have given this book a higher star rating. I would recommend this book to animal and wildlife lovers, or to readers who want to press the pause button on life - but not sure how. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. I really enjoyed this book. It took a long time to read, not because it was difficult, but because there was so much to absorb! Fascinating stories about brief contacts with animals (even a pigeon) that open our eyes and heart. I will keep this book close to me if ever I feel like I'm losing my humanity! geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"The author shows how cultivating the powerful, mysterious, and fragile bond between humans and other animals can improve our mental, physical, and spiritual health, protect our planet, and serve as an antidote to the loneliness of our species"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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With that said, the most glaring problems I noticed throughout the text were his references to indigenous knowledges. As an anthropologist who works with American Indians, it was hard for me to get over his stereotypical, "noble savage" perspective of indigenous groups worldwide. While I appreciated his inclusion of a Native perspective in chapter 19, it was overshadowed by inaccuracies (his claim that Lakota people believe storks are associated with babies ignoring that there are no storks living in any region remotely close to Lakota homelands) and his exploitative perspective (culturally appropriative vision quests, an actual Lakota practice, are admissible when the experience is had by a white scientist). Overall, he seems much too romantic in his understanding of indigenous perspectives on the environment and much too quick to exploit them for his own personal gain.