Sense of Wonder Towards Nature

Taylor & Francis

A Sense of Wonder Towards NatureHealing the Planet through Belonging\nAuthor(s): Haydn Washington\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138590601, 978-1138590601\nSynopsis\nEnvironmental scientist and writer Haydn Washington argues that we will not solve the environmental crisis unless we change our worldview and ethics, and to do so we must rejuvenate our sense of wonder at nature.\n\nThis book focuses on humanitys relation with nature, and the sense of wonder and belonging common to indigenous cultures and children everywhere. Drawing on events in the authors own four decades working to protect wild places, and the current literature on wonder, it examines what a sense of wonder is, what it has been called in different cultures, and our high points of wonder at nature. It also looks at the Great Divide in worldview between anthropocentrism and ecocentrism, and considers the problem of anthropocentric theory in acad.