A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations

"Three months of camp life on Lake Tahoe would restore an Egyptian mummy to his pristine vigor, and give him an appetite like an alligator. I do not mean the oldest and driest mummies, of course, but the fresher ones. The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?â it is the same the angels breathe."â Mark Twain, Roughing It

Here are more than 3,700 quotations in 143 categoriesâ from Acid Rain to Zoosâ that provide a comprehensive collection of the wise and witty observations about our natural environment, The Dictionary of Environmental Quotations will delight, provoke, and inform readers. It is at once stimulating, entertaining, and enlightening, with quotations that provide a complete range of human thought about nature and the environment. Quotations have been drawn from a variety of documented sources, including poems, proverbs, slogans, radio, and television, congressional hearings, magazines, and newspapers. The authors of the quotes range from a philosopher in pre-Christian times to a contemporary economist, from a poet who speaks of forests to an engineer concerned with air pollutants.

Organized into 143 topic areas such as Air, Conservation, Forests, Greenhouse Effect, History, Nuclear Energy, Water, Wildlife, and other subjects. The Dictionary of Environmental Quotations presents a sweeping look at the history of environmentalism as well as the issues and topics that are debated today. It includes two indexes, one by subject and one by author.

The relationship between people and nature has been spoken and written about through the ages in all cultures. While books such as The Norton Book of Nature Writing (LJ 3/1/90) and John Terres's Things Precious and Wild (Fulcrum, 1991) have focused on nature writings, Rodes and Odell have produced a much more comprehensive volume of quotations on the environment, which by simple definition is the earth, air, water, and resources and their interconnection with an organism. The compilers have drawn approximately 3700 quotations from proverbs, slogans, bumper stickers, speeches, periodicals, scientific papers, and philosophical works. Quotations are arranged alphabetically in 143 categories, such as acid rain, animal rights, cities, Earth Day, hazardous wastes, and pesticides. Within the categories, quotations are organized in chronological order and range from early Greek history through George Bush. Diverse authors include naturalists, politicians, philosophers, religious leaders, Nobel Prize winners, and ordinary citizens. Author and subject indexes make finding a quotation easy. This unique, well-researched dictionary should be in most libraries. --Eva Lautemann, Dekalb Coll. Lib., Clarkston, Ga.
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