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Crazy Mountains : learning from wilderness to weigh technology / David Strong.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in environmental public policyPublication details: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (x, 253 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585046131
  • 9780585046136
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Crazy Mountains.DDC classification:
  • 179/.1 20
LOC classification:
  • T14.5 .S8 1995eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Ch. 1. The Crazy Mountains -- Ch. 2. The Danger to the Crazy Mountains -- Ch. 3. The Environmentalist's Reply -- Ch. 4. The Other Story -- Ch. 5. The Technological Subversion of Environmental Ethics -- Ch. 6. Granting the Thing its Eloquence -- Ch. 7. To Listen Again -- Ch. 8. To Consider Things Again -- Ch. 9. To Experience Things Again -- Ch. 10. To Experience Wilderness -- Ch. 11. To Speak Again -- Ch. 12. To Build Again.
Summary: Written in the tradition of Walden and A River Runs Through It with philosophical clarity and literary power, this book opens with a vivid account of the Crazy Mountains of Montana, an island of high, craggy peaks, forest, meadows, and rushing streams, surrounded by the sweep of the high plains. A newly-bulldozed road and a planned timber sale jeopardize the wild character of the range and trigger the wide-ranging reflections of this remarkable book. This book presents a comprehensive vision of the challenge wilderness offers to our contemporary culture.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-243) and index.

Print version record.

Ch. 1. The Crazy Mountains -- Ch. 2. The Danger to the Crazy Mountains -- Ch. 3. The Environmentalist's Reply -- Ch. 4. The Other Story -- Ch. 5. The Technological Subversion of Environmental Ethics -- Ch. 6. Granting the Thing its Eloquence -- Ch. 7. To Listen Again -- Ch. 8. To Consider Things Again -- Ch. 9. To Experience Things Again -- Ch. 10. To Experience Wilderness -- Ch. 11. To Speak Again -- Ch. 12. To Build Again.

Written in the tradition of Walden and A River Runs Through It with philosophical clarity and literary power, this book opens with a vivid account of the Crazy Mountains of Montana, an island of high, craggy peaks, forest, meadows, and rushing streams, surrounded by the sweep of the high plains. A newly-bulldozed road and a planned timber sale jeopardize the wild character of the range and trigger the wide-ranging reflections of this remarkable book. This book presents a comprehensive vision of the challenge wilderness offers to our contemporary culture.

English.

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