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The philanthropist and philosopher Strachan Donnelley (1942--2008)
devoted his life to studying the complex relationship between
humans and nature. Founder and first president of the Center for
Humans and Nature, Donnelley was a pioneer in the exploration and
promotion of the idea that human beings individually and
collectively have moral and civic responsibilities to natural
ecosystems. In this wide-ranging volume, Donnelley traces the
connections between influential figures such as Aldo Leopold and
Charles Darwin, as well as lesser-known but original thinkers that
he met during the course of a full life -- ministers at his church,
friends with whom he fished, and colleagues who shared his passion
for research and writing. He grounds his work in classic
philosophers such as Descartes, Spinoza, and Whitehead and
reinterprets their writings about the natural world to develop a
conservation-centered philosophy, which he dubs "democratic
ecological citizenship." Edited by his daughter, Ceara Donnelley,
and Bruce Jennings, Frog Pond Philosophy illuminates the dominant
strands of Donnelley's intellectual identity as a philosopher,
naturalist, agitator, and spiritualist. Despite his often grim
depiction of the current state of the environment, Donnelly never
surrenders his faith in humanity's ability to meet its ethical
obligations to conserve, respect, and nurture the complexity and
diversity of the natural world. His vivid and personal essays,
rooted in everyday experiences, offer a distinctive perspective on
questions of urgent contemporary importance.
Twenty-five-year-old Sgt. Gray Phillips is at a crossroads in his
life: stay in the Marine Corps or get out and learn to be a
civilian? He's got forty-five days of leave to make up his mind but
the people in his life aren't making the decision any easier. His
dad wants him to get out; his grandfather wants him to stay in. And
his growing feelings for Sam Anderson are wreaking havoc with his
heart...and his mind. He believes relationships get ruined when a
Marine goes on deployment. So now he's got an even harder decision
to make: take a chance on Sam or leave love behind and give his all
to the Marines. Twenty-two year old Samantha Anderson lost her
husband to an IED in Afghanistan just two months after their vows.
Two years later, Sam is full of regrets-that she didn't move with
her husband to Alaska; that she allowed her friends to drift away;
that she hasn't taken many chances in life. Now, she's met Gray and
taking a risk on this Marine could be her one opportunity to feel
alive and in love again. But how can she risk her heart on another
military man who could share the same tragic fate as her husband?
For four years, Grace Sullivan wrote to a Marine she never met, and
fell in love. But when his deployment ended, so did the letters.
Ever since that day, Grace has been coasting, academically and
emotionally. The one thing she's decided? No way is Noah Jackson -
or any man - ever going to break her heart again. Noah has always
known exactly what he wants out of life. Success. Stability.
Control. That's why he joined the Marines and that's why he's
fighting his way - literally - through college. Now that he's got
the rest of his life on track, he has one last conquest: Grace
Sullivan. But since he was the one who stopped writing, he knows
that winning her back will be his biggest battle yet.
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