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Touchstone (1996), Edition: 1st Touchstone Ed, Paperback, 160 pages
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"We want to live as if there is no other place," Hogan tells us, "as if we will always be here. We want to live with devotion to the world of waters and the universe of life." In offering praise to sky, earth, water, and animals, she calls us to witness how each living thing is alive in a conscious world with its own integrity, grace, and dignity. In Dwellings, Hogan takes us on a spiritual quest borne out of the deep past and offers a more hopeful future as she seeks new visions and lights ancient fires.
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Essays on... I might say natural history, but this is more philosophical than you usually see in natural history works. Also, unlike many natural history works, Hogan does not position humans as non-natural. Perhaps I should say these are essays on the need to fit snugly and peacefully into the
Her essays speak strongly to me, reflecting my own frustrations and infatuations with science, my own ambivalence about the false dichotomy of observing vs. participating, the cost of knowledge, and the tensions between various ways of positioning yourself in the world.
I took this one backpacking with me, hoping that it would be a good backpacking-book. It was.
But it's just as good a living-at-home-in-the-city book. And maybe more necessary there, perhaps.
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world, to overcome the positioning of ourselves as Other.Her essays speak strongly to me, reflecting my own frustrations and infatuations with science, my own ambivalence about the false dichotomy of observing vs. participating, the cost of knowledge, and the tensions between various ways of positioning yourself in the world.
I took this one backpacking with me, hoping that it would be a good backpacking-book. It was.
But it's just as good a living-at-home-in-the-city book. And maybe more necessary there, perhaps.
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Original publication date
1995
Physical description
160 p.; 4.76 inches
ISBN
0684830337 / 9780684830339