What do fishing with an otter, sitting atop a mountain at dawn with eighty Taiwanese backpackers, and driving home from Aldo Leopold’s Shack have to say about the evolution of a personal environmental philosophy? Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship With the Natural World provides a series of reflections by an environmental educator about lessons learned from time spent in nature. Originally conceived as personal letters to the author’s daughter, this collection presents ethical questions outdoor enthusiasts regularly face as they work and play in the natural world.
The essays in this book explore environmentalism in a modern-day context, with topics including sustainability education, the current relevance of environmental writers from the past, and the uncertainty of what is meant by words like “naturalist, ” “solitude, ” and “wilderness.” There is no attempt to direct readers to any particular environmental philosophy. Instead, Simpson encourages readers to articulate their own perspective based on personal experiences in nature. Though Essays to My Daughter is written by a father to his daughter, the insights within the volume—and the questions they provoke—are valuable to all members of the next generation as they grapple with their own relationship to the natural world.
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Preface
Introduction: Personal Philosophy and Individual Experiences
Part I: The Pond and the Shack
1 The Good Oak Redux
2 Drowning Out All Our Muskrats
3 Wild Apples
4 Still Fishing
5 A Person’s Leisure Time
6 Book Purge
Part II: Sketches Here and There
7 Wisconsin East: A Small Square of Red
8 California With a Touch of Maine: Tide Pools East and West
9 Minnesota: Night of the Quintze
10 Iowa: The Birds of Iowa
11 Taiwan: Ascent of Jade Mountain
12 A Return to Taiwan: Old and American
13 Ontario: Goodbye, Deadbroke Island
14 Wisconsin West: Mark Twain on the Mekong
15 Wisconsin West: What About the Other Kids?
16 Three Outsdoorsmen and a Philosopher
Part III: Continuums
17 The Preservationist and the Conservationist
18 The Wanderer and the Adventurer
19 The Homecomer and the Sojourner
20 The Romantic and the Scientist
21 The Restorer
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Author
Despre autor
Steven Simpson’s career spans three related disciplines and two continents. As a Fulbright scholar in the early 1990s, he left Iowa State University to teach at National Taiwan University. More recently, he taught environmental education, outdoor recreation, and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and National Taiwan Normal University’s Graduate Institute of Environmental Education. Prior to academia, he worked as a naturalist in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and California. Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship With the Natural World is his fifth book.
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