- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre / Not Applicable; 2 edition (Sep 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1550549634
- ISBN-13: 978-1550549638
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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7th Edition with a New Introduction by the Author David Suzuki presents his credo, expressing a world-view that must be embraced if we are to find a truly sustainable way of living on this planet. "The finest work to date by Canada's leading environmentalist."
-Wade Davis In this seminal, best-selling work, David Suzuki presents a radically different perspective on our basic needs and the real bottom line. This reissue of the paperback edition includes a new, updated introduction describing where we are today, how we got here and what we must do next.
About the Author
David Suzuki is a highly acclaimed geneticist and the host of The Nature of Things. He has written numerous books, including Wisdom of the Elders, Metamorphosis and Good News for a Change, and is the founder and chair of the David Suzuki Foundation. 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.
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Suppose that 200,000 years ago, biologists from another galaxy searching for life forms in other parts of the universe had discovered Earth and parked their space vehicle above the Rift Valley in Africa. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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Excellent, enlightening and a "should read",
By Myles Delta Freeman "Myles" (Halifax, NS CANADA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Sacred Balance (Paperback)
This is an excellent and enlightening work about the general state of the planet, humanity as a species, where we belong on the planet and what it means to us in terms of sustaining us as a species for the long run. Well-written and divided into chapters which could be summarized as humanity, air, earth, water, fire, community, love, spirituality and balance, this book paints an accurate state of the world picture with facts as well as metaphors. It always presents its concern about the greater picture without losing sight of the details. A great balance of general science and spirituality, with just enough facts and personal stories of many to make the points convincing, this book also is threaded with impacting and eye-opening quotes and poetry from a variety of sources and people. A superb book, overall, from someone who has seen a lot of what he wrote about. This book should be on the curriculum for senior year high school so that the future generations can get a good grasp of the world as they become contributing adults in that world which they will own and determine, more impacting than ever, for future generations. No matter how much or how little they will get from it, every bit helps at a time when that is truer than ever in the past from every one of us living today. Don't get me wrong, though, it's not the book that's profound. It's what you do with what you learn from it which will be.
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A life changing, life enhancing read,
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This review is from: The Sacred Balance (Paperback)
The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place In Nature by David Suzuki offers a conceptual understanding of the human condition and an ecologically sustainable, satisfying and honorable way of life in the world enveloping us all in this day and age. Providing readers with a complete grasp of nature and its most fulfilling values, The Sacred Balance intuitively presents a new direction with which one might rightfully prosper in balance with nature and one's surroundings. As a unique and concise interpretive understanding of nature and each individual's placement amidst an ever-growing and progressing nature, The Sacred Balance is very strongly recommended as a life changing, life enhancing read.
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