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A Sense of Wonder Towards Nature - Healing the Planet through Belonging (Hardcover)
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A Sense of Wonder Towards Nature - Healing the Planet through Belonging (Hardcover)
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Environmental scientist and writer Haydn Washington argues that we
will not solve the environmental crisis unless we change our
worldview and ethics, and to do so we must rejuvenate our sense of
wonder at nature. This book focuses on humanity's relation with
nature, and the sense of wonder and belonging common to indigenous
cultures and children everywhere. Drawing on events in the author's
own four decades working to protect wild places, and the current
literature on wonder, it examines what a sense of wonder is, what
it has been called in different cultures, and our high points of
wonder at nature. It also looks at the 'Great Divide' in worldview
between anthropocentrism and ecocentrism, and considers the problem
of anthropocentric theory in academia, arguing that the focus
should instead be on harmony with nature. The book concludes with
an examination of why wonder has become buried in Western society
and considers ways in which it can be revived, including rituals
and education. It also considers how wonder helps humanity to
become 'whole'. The final chapter presents the road back to wonder
and how wonder towards nature can be restored in Western society.
This book will be of great interest to environmental scientists,
conservation biologists, environmental philosophers and ecological
ethicists, as well as environmentalists, educators,
eco-psychologists, and students looking at sustainability, deep
ecology, and environmental philosophy and ethics.
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