The Great Remembering ( Signed and Inscribed By Author )

Forbes, Peter

ISBN 10: 0967280613 / ISBN 13: 9780967280615

Published by Real Goods Trading corp., Ukiah, California, U.S.A., 2001

About this Item

Near Fine condition softcover, 2001, 1st printing stated. Signed and inscribed nicely by Peter Forbes to the family of a friend on the title page. Book is pretty much brand new, looks great! Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall.

Seller Inventory # 014926

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Great Remembering ( Signed and Inscribed By Author )
• Publisher: Real Goods Trading corp., Ukiah, California, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0967280613
• ISBN 13: 9780967280615
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed and Inscribed By Author
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • AAA-General Inventory

About this title

Synopsis

The Great Remembering is an activist's exploration of what land means to our culture. In three chapters, "The Extinction of Experience," "Dissent and Defiance," and "Building a New Commons," the author traces the roots of our disconnection from place and from meaningful stories about our lives. He discusses what he terms the "ethics of enough"--the growing trend to slow down and place the quality of our experiences over the quantity of our possessions. It is through preserving land and rebuilding the relationship between land and people, he argues, that our culture can not only restore natural habitats, but revitalize human communities as well.
In his introduction to the book, the Trust for Public Land's president, Will Rogers, writes, "The time has come for some hard questions and new approaches to land conservation. . . the pace of development and the impact of often poorly conceived growth on the American landscape have accelerated. . . How can we rethink our work as conservationists to change how our society approaches not just land use, but also our relationship with each other, our sense of community, and our responsibilities of citizens of a rapidly shrinking world?" Whether we are conservationists or citizens concerned about the quality of our lives and landscapes, The Great Remembering helps us begin to answer these questions and to work toward restoring a vital, interdependent, whole-land community.
Trust for Public Land's companion book, Our Land, Ourselves (1999), gathered together a diverse collection of readings on the many themes of people and place. Peter Forbes' introductions to those readings suggested a new way of viewing land conservation as the process of building values and shaping human lives. In The Great Remembering, he goes a step further, arguing that land conservation has the power to transform the heart and soul of our communities and to restore a set of values to a society that is increasingly fragmented and individualistic.

About the Author

Peter Forbes is a photographer, writer, and conservationist. For ten years, Peter led all the land conservation efforts undertaken by the Trust for Public Land in New England. In 1998, Peter became the TPL Fellow and is now co-director for the Center for Land and People.