IN THE BEGINNING, as the Greeks saw it, when chaos settled into form there was a mighty sphere, floating free within the moist, gleaming embrace of the sky and its great swirling drifts of white cloud, a vibrant globe of green and blue and brown and gray, binding together in a holy, deep-breasted synchrony the temperatures of the sun, the gasses of the air, the chemicals of the sea, the minerals of the soil, and bearing the organized, self-contained, and almost purposeful aspect of a single organism, alive, a breathing, pulsing body that was, in the awed words of Plato, "a living creature, one and visible, containing within itself all living creatures."
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Dwellers in the land
the bioregional vision
by Kirkpatrick Sale
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"Imagine a world structured around ecological and cultural diversity rather than national and political parameters. In response to present and impending ecological and economic crises, Kirkpatrick Sale presents a definitive introduction to the unique concept of bioregionalism, an alternative way of organizing society to create smaller-scaled, more ecologically sound, and individually responsive communities with renewable economies and cultures.
Sale emphasizes the concept of regionalism through natural population division, settlement near and stewardship of watershed areas, and the importance of communal ownership of and responsibility for the land. Dwellers in the Land focuses on the realistic development of these bioregionally focused communities and the places where they are established to create a society that is both ecologically sustainable and satisfying to its inhabitants."--BOOK JACKET.
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Dwellers in the land: the bioregional vision
2000, University of Georgia Press
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Dwellers in the land: the Bioregional vision.
1991, New Society Publishers, New Society Pub
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Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision
June 1991, New Society Publishers
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Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision
May 1991, Library Company of Philadelphia
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Dwellers in the land: the bioregional vision
1985, Sierra Club Books
in English
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