The Sacred Balance A Visual Celebration of Our Place in Nature

by Suzuki, David

• ISBN13: 9781553650652
• ISBN10: 1553650654
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-31
• Publisher: Greystone Books

Summary

This outstanding book is based on David Suzukiand Amanda McConnell's best-selling The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature, a textual exploration of the web of life that unites all living things. This visual feast celebrates that connection in spectacular photographs, beautiful reproductions of artwork, and amazing electron micrographs and satellite photographs. The accompanying text presents David Suzuki's idiosyncratic, bold, and inspiring view of the human place on Earth, drawn from his life as a scientist, environmentalist, writer, and thinker. The result is a rich and uplifting expression of the sacred balance that is life.

Author Biography

David Suzuki is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist, and broadcaster. He is the host of CBC TV's The Nature of Things and the author or co-author of more than thirty books, He is the chair of the David Suzuki Foundation and has received UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for Science, the United Nations Environmental Medal, and the United Nations Environment Program's award. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia Amanda McConnell has written more than one hundred documentary films, many of them for The Nature of Things. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature, and she writes and gardens in Toronto, Ontario Maria DeCambra is a photo researcher and editor who lives in Toronto, Ontario

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Water: The Ocean Flowing Through Our Veins	p. 29
Air: The Breath of All Green Things	p. 47
Fire: Let There be Light	p. 61
Earth: Made From the Soil	p. 75
Biodiversity: Protected by Our Kin	p. 87
Love: The Tie That Binds	p. 111
Spirit: Sacred Matter	p. 131
Notes	p. 149
Photo Credits	p. 151
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