The Western approach to nature has always operated under both spiritual and scientific views. While Christianity decrees that human beings have dominion over nature, evolutionary biology teaches us that we are but highly adapted animals among a biological network of millions of other species. What is our proper relationship to wild animals-and what is our responsibility to them? In The Bullhead Queen, Sue Leaf exemplifies the moral aspect of humans to nature through a collection of engaging meditations on the places she ...
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The Western approach to nature has always operated under both spiritual and scientific views. While Christianity decrees that human beings have dominion over nature, evolutionary biology teaches us that we are but highly adapted animals among a biological network of millions of other species. What is our proper relationship to wild animals-and what is our responsibility to them? In The Bullhead Queen, Sue Leaf exemplifies the moral aspect of humans to nature through a collection of engaging meditations on the places she sees every day on Pioneer Lake in east-central Minnesota. Reflecting on the birds she peers at through binoculars and the Lutheran church that anchors the lake's southern shore, Leaf contemplates how her relationship to nature has been colored by the Christian theology of her childhood. Acknowledging the influence of the church on her view of the natural world, she follows the liturgical calendar as a thread, chronicling the change of seasons over the year. Leaf considers the results of the assumption that nature is ours to use: we continue to fish, trap, and hunt animals whose populations are ghosts of their former selves and produce mounting environmental pressures on their habitats. Observing the ways in which the heavy hand of human beings has changed the landscape of Pioneer Lake, and many others like it, she also rejoices in the ways in which the lakes remain wild and exuberant, influencing the lives of all who encounter them.
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Good. Hardcover in dust jacket, minor wear, creasing along jacket's edges, small closed tears and small chip along edges, back cover flap price clipped, solid binding and bright pages, a very nice copy!
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Inscribed By the Author A collection of engaging meditations on nature, our relationship with an responsibility to animals, and the influence of Christian theology and evolutionary biology on our views-all from her daily observations from her home on Pioneer Lake in Minnesota. Spine ends gently bumped with corresponding crimps and a short crease to the lower front flap of the jacket, in new Brodart. Inscribed and signed by Leaf on the half title page.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket, SIGNED by the author. Clean yellow boards with ivory spine, gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers. Signed by author on half-title page as follows: "Sue Leaf-March 21, 2010-the real equinox." 193 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped; publisher's "autographed copy" sticker authenticates signature; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Sue Leaf exemplifies the moral aspect of humans to nature through a collection of engaging meditationson the places she sees every day on Pioneer Lake in east-central Minnesota.