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Self Heal (Paperback)
Samantha Walton
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Harnessing new enthusiasm for Nan Shepherd's writing, The Living
World asks how literature might help us reimagine humanity's place
on earth in the midst of our ecological crisis. The first book to
examine Shepherd's writing through an ecocritical lens, it reveals
forgotten details about the scientific, political and philosophical
climate of early twentieth century Scotland, and offers new
insights into Shepherd's distinctive environmental thought. More
than this, this book reveals how Shepherd's ways of relating to
complex, interconnected ecologies predate many of the core themes
and concerns of the multi-disciplinary environmental humanities,
and may inform their future development. Broken down into chapters
focusing on themes of place, ecology, environmentalism, Deep Time,
vital matter and selfhood, The Living World offers the first
integrated study of Shepherd's writing and legacy, making the work
of this philosopher, feminist, amateur ecologist, geologist, and
innovative modernist, accessible and relevant to a new community of
readers.
'Beautifully written, intimate and intellectually fascinating'
Nathan Filer 'This book represents, genuinely, a moment of
ground-breaking importance for how we think about nature, access
and wellbeing in late capitalism' Dr Alice Tarbuck 'Impeccably
researched . . . A call to us all to find a place within the
simplicity and complexity of nature' Lara Maiklem, bestselling
author of Mudlarking Everybody is talking about the healing
properties of nature. Hospitals are being retrofitted with gardens,
and forests reimagined as wellbeing centres. On the Shetland
Islands, it is possible to walk into a doctor's surgery with
anxiety or depression, and walk out with a prescription for nature.
Where has this come from, and what does 'going to nature' mean?
Where is it - at the end of a garden, beyond the tarmac fringes of
a city, at the summit of a mountain? Drawing on history, science,
literature and art, Samantha Walton shows that the nature cure has
deep roots - but, as we face an unprecedented crisis of mental
health, social injustice and environmental devastation, the search
for it is more urgent now than ever. Everybody Needs Beauty engages
seriously with the connection between nature and health, while
scrutinising the harmful trends of a wellness industry that seeks
to exploit our relationship with the natural world. In doing so,
this book explores how the nature cure might lead us towards a more
just and radical way of life: a real means of recovery, for people,
society and nature.
'Beautifully written, intimate and intellectually fascinating'
Nathan Filer 'This book represents, genuinely, a moment of
ground-breaking importance for how we think about nature, access
and wellbeing in late capitalism' Dr Alice Tarbuck 'Impeccably
researched . . . A call to us all to find a place within the
simplicity and complexity of nature' Lara Maiklem, bestselling
author of Mudlarking Everybody is talking about the healing
properties of nature. Hospitals are being retrofitted with gardens,
and forests reimagined as wellbeing centres. On the Shetland
Islands, it is possible to walk into a doctor's surgery with
anxiety or depression, and walk out with a prescription for nature.
Where has this come from, and what does 'going to nature' mean?
Where is it - at the end of a garden, beyond the tarmac fringes of
a city, at the summit of a mountain? Drawing on history, science,
literature and art, Samantha Walton shows that the nature cure has
deep roots - but, as we face an unprecedented crisis of mental
health, social injustice and environmental devastation, the search
for it is more urgent now than ever. Everybody Needs Beauty engages
seriously with the connection between nature and health, while
scrutinising the harmful trends of a wellness industry that seeks
to exploit our relationship with the natural world. In doing so,
this book explores how the nature cure might lead us towards a more
just and radical way of life: a real means of recovery, for people,
society and nature.
Harnessing new enthusiasm for Nan Shepherd's writing, The Living
World asks how literature might help us reimagine humanity's place
on earth in the midst of our ecological crisis. The first book to
examine Shepherd's writing through an ecocritical lens, it reveals
forgotten details about the scientific, political and philosophical
climate of early twentieth century Scotland, and offers new
insights into Shepherd's distinctive environmental thought. More
than this, this book reveals how Shepherd's ways of relating to
complex, interconnected ecologies predate many of the core themes
and concerns of the multi-disciplinary environmental humanities,
and may inform their future development. Broken down into chapters
focusing on themes of place, ecology, environmentalism, Deep Time,
vital matter and selfhood, The Living World offers the first
integrated study of Shepherd's writing and legacy, making the work
of this philosopher, feminist, amateur ecologist, geologist, and
innovative modernist, accessible and relevant to a new community of
readers.
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