Nature's Silent Music

Nature's Silent Music
Author: Philip S. Callahan
Publisher: Acres U.S.A., Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1992
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780911311334

In this book, scientist Philip Callahan shows how "civilized" insanity is turning Ireland away from her naturally harmonious, aesthetically pleasing, sound practices. Why remove a thatched roof to replace it with galvanized tin, only to increase the heating bill? With insightful wisdom, Callahan also examines the mysterious power of round towers, "magic spots," and healers such as Biddy Early. Callahan's study of hedgerows, booley people and Ireland's traditional form of agriculture can teach everyone the value of the land and why not to carelessly destroy it with toxic chemicals.

Seeing Silence

Seeing Silence
Author: Pete McBride
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0847870863

In a world ever more congested and polluted with both toxins and noise, award-winning photographer Pete McBride takes readers on a once-in-a-lifetime escape to find places of peace and quiet—a pole-to-pole, continent-by-continent quest for the soul. We tend to think of silence as the absence of sound, but it is actually the void where we can hear the sublime notes of nature. In this National Outdoor Book Award winning work, photographer Pete McBride reveals the wonders of these hushed places in spectacular imagery—from the thin-air flanks of Mount Everest to the depths of the Grand Canyon, from the high-altitude vistas of the Atacama to the African savannah, and from the Antarctic Peninsula to the flowing waters of the Ganges and Nile. These places remind us of the magic of being “truly away” and how such places are vanishing. Often showing beauty from vantages where no other photographer has ever stood, this is a seven-continent visual tour of global quietude—and the power in nature’s own sounds—that will both inspire and calm.

The Revelation of Nature

The Revelation of Nature
Author: Paul Matthews
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351759248

This title was first published in 2001. "The Revelation of Nature" embraces pragmatism, aesthetics and metaphysics in an effort to narrate a fundamental relationship between the contemporary world and the natural source and site for any world of meaning. Beginning with an exploration of Heidegger's seminal insight into the way we exist - that human existence must be understood in its everydayness - Matthews links these ideas to Heidegger's interpretation of the development of Western history in terms of its grounding metaphysical determinations to do with truth, reality and the nature of things. Matthews concludes that our everyday lives are informed and shaped by intellectual precepts and normative modes of behaviour that promote the combination and enslavement of both nature and ourselves within a mass technological grid. This book breaks new ground in theology, without underpinning the analysis with a particular religious viewpoint.

Lake Nyos: Nature's Silent Fury

Lake Nyos: Nature's Silent Fury
Author: Zahid Ameer
Publisher: Zahid Ameer
Total Pages: 47
Release: 2024-08-17
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

"Lake Nyos: Nature's Silent Fury" delves into the fascinating and tragic history of one of the world’s most dangerous lakes. Situated in Cameroon, Lake Nyos is notorious for its catastrophic eruption of carbon dioxide in 1986, which led to one of the deadliest natural disasters in recent history. This comprehensive eBook explores the lake's formation, its unique hydrological and geological characteristics, and the science behind the CO2 buildup that caused the disaster. Readers will gain an in-depth understanding of the volcanic activity influencing Lake Nyos, the immediate and long-term impacts of the 1986 disaster on local communities and wildlife, and the ongoing efforts to prevent future tragedies. Through detailed accounts, scientific investigations, and personal stories, "Lake Nyos: Nature's Silent Fury" offers a gripping look at nature's hidden dangers and the resilience of those affected. Perfect for enthusiasts of natural disasters, geology, and environmental science, this eBook provides a thorough examination of the silent fury lurking beneath Lake Nyos and the crucial lessons learned from this calamitous event.

Nature

Nature
Author: Sir Norman Lockyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 738
Release: 1902
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

Silent Spring

Silent Spring
Author: Rachel Carson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2002
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780618249060

The essential, cornerstone book of modern environmentalism is now offered in a handsome 40th anniversary edition which features a new Introduction by activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new Afterword by Carson biographer Linda Lear.

The Power of Silence

The Power of Silence
Author: Graham Turner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2013-03-05
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1620401037

Many people find the very notion of silence uncomfortable, even alarming or embarrassing. They are gripped by a kind of agoraphobia of the spirit. Many try to obliterate silence by turning up the volume control of music or television, or the volume of their days. The Power of Silence explores the world of silence--a mysterious and unfathomable realm, perhaps the most underused of all resources--and those who recognize its value. It is based on extensive interviews with those whose business is silence and who understand its creative and therapeutic uses. Graham Turner explores how the desert fathers sought silence and solitude. Psychotherapists talk of the creative value of silence in their practice as do--perhaps surprisingly--musical composers. The great Catholic centers of contemplation are investigated, as are the practitioners of Zen and those who try to heal the sickness of the mind. A silent moment is time for tranquility and reflection--something beyond ourselves. The value of welcoming quiet has become a great gap in modern human awareness, and this book seeks to restore our belief in the power of silence.

...And Touches Of Nature

...And Touches Of Nature
Author: Dudley (Chris) Christian
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2017-05-13
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1988861004

A collection of thoughts, a mess of my aged epigrams, some advice given to me decades and decades ago, some helpful contemplation and a reflective thought, or mayhap two, a provoking rambling which has become truth as each one I've lived through. Re-read my herein presented words alas also my wisdom, at least I hope them so you'll find, and when you have, if you did find some useful or relative word amongst my own, then pray I, pass it on, please pass it on, pass it anew to someone and tell them what you did find. Thank you again for taking a small time out of your day for this small "Pause for Poetry" and may the good fates and good fortunes follow you generously as a friend of mine....

Ethical Responses to Nature’s Call

Ethical Responses to Nature’s Call
Author: James Magrini
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2019-06-05
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0429770332

Arguing for a renewed view of objects and nature, Ethical Responses to Nature’s Call considers how it is possible to understand our ethical duties - in the form of ethical intuitionalism - to nature and the planet by listening to and releasing ourselves over to the call or address of nature. Blending several strands of philosophical thought, such as Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology, W. D. Ross’s prima fathics, Alphonso Lingis’s phenomenological ethics traceable to The Imperative, and Michael Bonnett’s ecophilosophy, this book offers a unique rejoinder to the problems and issues that continue to haunt humans’ relationship to nature. The origins of such problems and issues largely remain obscured from view due to the oppressive influence of the "Cultural Framework" which gives form and structure to the ways we understand, discourse on, and comport ourselves in relation to the natural world. Through understanding this "Cultural Framework" we also come to know the responses we continue to offer in answer to nature’s call and address, and are then in a position to analyze and assess those responses in terms of their potential ethical weight. Such a phenomenon is made possible through the descriptive-and-interpretive method of eco-phenomenology. This renewed vision of the human-and-nature provides direction for our interaction with and behavior toward nature in such a way that the ethical insight offers a diagnosis and provides a potentially compelling prescriptive for environmental ills.