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9781558964310

Grasshopper Dreaming: Reflections on Killing and Loving

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  • ISBN13:

    9781558964310

  • ISBN10:

    1558964312

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-04-01
  • Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
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Summary

Grasshopper Dreaming is a collection of first-person musings about the ethical and philosophical implications of the author's work as an entomologist who specializes in grasshoppers and pest control. The essays represent the rare and compelling integration of an understanding of nature with the perspective of a world-class ecologist and struggling mystic.

Table of Contents

Prologue ix
Good for Nothing
1(18)
Shall I Lead?
19(8)
To Be Honest
27(20)
From the Mouths of Babes
47(6)
We Murder to Dissect
53(14)
Tough Love
67(8)
Like Father, Like Son
75(30)
Confessions of a Deserter
105(28)
The Meaning of One
133(4)
Epilogue 137

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