A unique, very provocative book in the naturalist vein. Among other themes, Evans explores how the natural world survives and asserts itself in marginal, damaged and abandoned locations. He is critical, or at least doubtful, of the conservationist approach to the natural world, and stands back from our human concepts of what natural environments should be. In some of the essays, he looks at how the genie is already out of the bottle and we cannot turn natural systems back to what they were before - and notes that this preoccupation is a human one, a human concept, not one found in the natural world. There is a quote in there somewhere to the effect that Nature is always good, even if it is not good for us.
Evans also has a good collection of startling facts, and new biological hypotheses and theories.
No comments:
Post a Comment