The moth snowstorm : nature and joy
McCarthy, Michael, approximately 1947-2015
Book
Nature has many gifts for us, but perhaps the greatest of them all is joy; the intense delight we can take in the natural world, in its beauty, in the wonder it can offer us, in the peace it can provide - feelings stemming ultimately from our own unbreakable links to nature, which mean that we cannot be fully human if we are separate from it. In this book, Michael McCarthy, one of Britain's leading writers on the environment, proposes this joy as a defence of a natural world which is ever more threatened, and which, he argues, is inadequately served by the two defences put forward hitherto: sustainable development and the recognition of ecosystem services.
Main title:
The moth snowstorm : nature and joy / Michael McCarthy.
Author:
Imprint:
London : John Murray, 2015.
Collation:
262 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9781444792775 (hbk)
Dewey class:
508
Language:
English
Subject:
NatureHuman beings -- Effect of environment onMcCarthy, Michael, approximately 1947- -- Childhood and youthPopular Science and NatureThe environmentEnvironmentalist thought & ideologyNature & the natural world: general interestWildlife: general interestWildlife: butterflies, other insects & spiders: general interest
BRN:
272230