The End of Nature by Bill McKibben: 9780812976083 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books (2024)

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What is the book end of nature about? ›

The End of Nature by Bill McKibben explores the devastating impact of human activity on the environment. McKibben argues that our actions have fundamentally altered the natural world, leading to irreversible changes such as climate change.

Bill McKibben has spent most of his life working to wean the world off fossil fuels, which, when burned, produce pollutants responsible for climate change and the catastrophic damage it causes.

I believe that without recognizing it we have already stepped over the threshold of such a change; that we are at the end of nature. By the end of nature I do not mean the end of the world. The rain will still fall and the sun shine, though differently than before.

Nature expresses Emerson's belief that each individual must develop a personal understanding of the universe. Emerson makes clear in the Introduction that men should break away from reliance on secondhand information, upon the wisdom of the past, upon inherited and institutionalized knowledge: Our age is retrospective.

The Book of Nature is a religious and philosophical concept originating in the Latin Middle Ages that explores the relationship between religion and science, which views nature as a book for knowledge and understanding. Early theologians, such as St.

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“The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”—C. JoyBell C.

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

"Nature is God's living, visible garment." "I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting system through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only tune in." "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

Huysmans' Against Nature is a novel about one man (the rich but jaded aristocrat Des Esseintes) and the isolated life he crafts for himself – a life governed by aesthetic considerations and the desire to subvert, and even supersede, nature.

Synopsis. In Nature, Emerson lays out and attempts to solve an abstract problem: that humans do not fully accept nature's beauty. He writes that people are distracted by the demands of the world, whereas nature gives but humans fail to reciprocate.

What is the plot of the book The Naturals? ›

Serial killers. The Naturals are on the case. Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a spot in an elite FBI program for teens with innate crime-solving abilities, and into some harrowing situations.

Part travel writing and part political reportage, The Ends of the Earth is a vivid and disturbing chronicle of Robert Kaplan's journey through a significant part of the third world in search of what he describes as "a paradigm for understanding the world in the early decades of the twenty-first century." The book grew ...