Rambunctious Garden
Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
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Narrated by:
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Renee Chambliss
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By:
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Emma Marris
About this listen
A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. Humans have changed the landscapes they inhabit since prehistory, and climate change means even the remotest places now bear the fingerprints of humanity. Emma Marris argues convincingly that it is time to look forward and create the "rambunctious garden," a hybrid of wild nature and human management.
In this optimistic book, listeners meet leading scientists and environmentalists and visit imaginary Edens, designer ecosystems, and Pleistocene parks. Marris describes innovative conservation approaches, including re-wilding, assisted migration, and the embrace of so-called novel ecosystems.
Rambunctious Garden is short on gloom and long on interesting theories and fascinating narratives, all of which bring home the idea that we must give up our romantic notions of pristine wilderness and replace them with the concept of a global, half-wild rambunctious garden planet, tended by us.
©2011 Emma Maris (P)2013 Audible, Inc.What listeners say about Rambunctious Garden
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- Anonymous User
- 15-07-2024
Re-imagining the humble garden
This was a lovely listen, her thoughts on nature are beautifully articulated. The way she flutters from personal observations, historical events and conversations with others had me catching my breath in awe as it unfolded. The views on the humble garden being a pathway to future ecosystems is enriching.
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