Showing posts with label Barbara Kingsolver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barbara Kingsolver. Show all posts

Friday, October 26, 2012

Barbara Kingsolver: Being Part of Nature's Fabric

Guest Post by Ernest Marshall

        I recently contributed book reviews for the authors Ernest Thompson Seton and Henry David Thoreau, “classic” nature writers in the tradition of William Bartram, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold, who explore and extol the value of wildness or nature “in the raw."  But what about a viewpoint of 21st century America, where we mostly abide in cities and subdivisions in a world of 7 billion-and-growing people and nature has to jostle for its bit of residual space?