Download Ebook Dirt: A Love Story, by Liz Stephens
After getting such information from us about this publication what should you do? Once more, this is an ideal book that is created especially for you, the individual who likes reading so much. You are the viewers with huge interest as well as you will certainly not give up of a publication. Dirt: A Love Story, By Liz Stephens truly what you need currently. You may not be odd with this title of guide, may not you? It is not the time that you will give up to end up. You can complete it whenever you desire.
Dirt: A Love Story, by Liz Stephens
Download Ebook Dirt: A Love Story, by Liz Stephens
Having several extra times and also have no suggestions to do something when holiday is extremely uninteresting. In such time, you will most likely feel that you are bored of your tasks. Going outdoors or socializing with your close friends might need even more money. So, this is right to attempt linking to the web as well as search for the book collection. If you want to be established even in your holidays, you could utilize the precious collections of publications to check out.
This publication is readily available in soft duplicate data that can be had by you. Checking out fans, many individuals have the reading task in there early morning day. It is as the means to start the day. At some point, in their midday, they will certainly likewise enjoy reviewing the magazine. Have you started to enjoy reviewing the book? Dirt: A Love Story, By Liz Stephens as one of referred books can be your option to spend your time or leisure time exactly. You will certainly not should have other worthless tasks to open or make use of the moment.
When you want to review it as part of tasks in your home or workplace, this file can be additionally stored in the computer or laptop computer. So, you may not should be worried about shedding the printed book when you bring it someplace. This is one of the best reasons that you need to select Dirt: A Love Story, By Liz Stephens as one of your analysis products. All simple way shades your tasks to be easier. It will certainly also lead you in making the life runs much better.
You have to begin caring reading. Also you will certainly not have the ability to invest guide for all day, you could also invest couple of times in a day for some times. It's not kind of forceful activities. You can enjoy reading Dirt: A Love Story, By Liz Stephens all over you actually have wish. Why? The supplied soft data of this publication will certainly reduce you in obtaining the meaning. Yeah, obtain the book below from the link that we share.
Review
“Add my name to the list of those who love to play in dirt, and know how much I love this anthology of vibrant voices celebrating, investigating, remembering the ways in which we are grounded in life, in memory, and in story by mud and dust. There is much here to laugh over, to learn about, to sing along with. Kick off your shoes, dig in your toes, and enjoy!” (Kim Barnes, author of In the Kingdom of Men)
Read more
About the Author
BARBARA RICHARDSON is the author of two novels: Tributary, which won a Utah Book Award and was a 2013 WILLA Award finalist in historical fiction, and Guest House, a 2010 Eric Hoffer Award finalist in fiction. Her work also has appeared in Northwest Review, Cimarron Review, Epiphany, Windhorse Review, and Dialogue. She lives in Kamas, Utah.
Read more
Product details
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: ForeEdge from University Press of New England (September 1, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1611687667
ISBN-13: 978-1611687668
Product Dimensions:
6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
11 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#1,495,148 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I bought Dirt: A Love Story thinking that it was written primarily for gardeners and naturalists, but it has a variety of subjects including soil science, personal loss, gardening, philosophy, even humor that make Dirt a surprise and great read. But with all its diversity, a continuous thread of thought exists in this book that’s expressed by author Barbara Richardson, “The artists, scientists, and authors in Dirt: A Love Story drag you outdoors, scuff your knuckles, and muddy your feet. They make dirt live and breathe again.â€
This book took me on an adventure through all things dirt. It was hard to put down! It travels from everyday dirt experiences then delves into the science of dirt. It was very unexpected!!
great condition thank you
Numerous authors all saying exactly the same thing. Utterly repetitive. Lacking any soil science that would help one to better understand and appreciate what is going on in the dirt.
Dirt: A Love Story by Barbara Richardson is a very highly recommended anthology for dirt lovers everywhere. For those of us who love soil/dirt, let's speak the truth right now. As Jana Richman so eloquently points out: "Gorgeous, sexy people dig in dirt. People who age well. People who collect beauty in the creases of crow’s feet. People with sturdy hands and good minds.""The poetry of the earth is never dead." John KeatsIn Dirt thirty-six artists, scientists, and renowned writers discuss and extol the virtues of soil, dirt, and the importance of it. The anthology contains essays by "writers, travelers, biologists, sculptors, green architects, terrestrial ecologists, geomorphologists, soil scientists, environmental economists, Sufi teachers, medicine women, farmers and the daughters and sons of farmers, and people who generally like to live close to the land." For all of them, well, us, the truth is that dirt makes us unaccountably happy.This collection is divided into five sections. The first section "Land Centered," consists of essays by "flagrant dirt fanatics." The second section, "Kid Stuff" explores our early contact with dirt. The third is “Dirt Worship,†on claiming our ancestry with the dirt. The fourth is "Dirt Facts," which offers insights into the scientific processes within dirt. The fifth and last section, "Native Soil," talks about the challenge of loving difficult ground.Those of us who love dirt and growing things understand the sentiments of Deborah Koons Garcia: "Soil is one of the true miracles of this planet." Everything that has ever been on the earth eventually returns to the dirt. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust is a fact. The transformation and processes to return to dirt encompass changes and processes that few people think about.I know my love of gardening and landscaping seems to be inborn, an innate instinct that can only be met by digging in the dirt. The dirt calls out to me as loudly as it calls out to my children. When they were young, they were mud babies. They needed to play in the mud, getting covered head to toe. No scolding could keep them from this preoccupation with dirt. Perhaps there is an explanation for this. Peter Heller notes that, "I read that dirt has pheromones, or something, that come out of the ground and mix with our endocrine systems and give us a sense of well-being. In this way dirt is like potatoes and tobacco and opium."This is a wonderfully organized and well thought out compilation of writing about dirt. I thoroughly enjoyed it!Contents include:Foreword: Scratching the Surface by Pam HoustonPreface: The God of Dirt by Barbara RichardsonLAND CENTERED: “MAGNIFICENTLY HUMBLEâ€My Life in Dirt by Edward Kanze, NaturalistThe Great Beneath by Linda Hogan, AuthorDirt Fantasies by Jana Richman, AuthorPraise to the Transformers by Janisse Ray, AuthorGlosses on Dirt by Erica Olsen, AuthorSoil Versus Dirt: A Reverie on Getting Down to Earth by Kayann Short, CSA FarmerDigging In by Elias Amidon, Sufi TeacherKID STUFF: “MAJOR IN MUD PIESâ€Dirt Princess by Julene Bair, AuthorThe First Worm by John T. Price, AuthorThe Language of Clay by Roxanne Swentzell, SculptorDirt: Imago Ignota by John Keeble, AuthorMud Pies by Chris Larson, Green ArchitectServices at the Church of Dirt by Marilyn Krysl, PoetDIRT WORSHIP: “THAT MOTHERLY FEELINGâ€Dreaming in Dirt by BK Loren, AuthorTao of Dirt by Liz Stephens, AuthorThe Life of Soil by Bernd Heinrich, BiologistDirt in Love by Barbara Richardson, AuthorDirt House by Peter Heller, AuthorSinking Down into Heaven by Jeanne Rogers, Artist and AuthorDIRT FACTS: “INTERESTING SECRETS TO REVEALâ€The Soil’s Breath by Tyler Volk, BiologistEarthmover by Lisa Knopp, AuthorWorm Herder: A Q and A With Dr. Diana H. Wall by Carrie Visintainer, JournalistSeeing Soils by Deborah Koons Garcia, FilmmakerThe Next Big Thing in Soil Science by Carl Rosen, Soil ScientistA Badge of Honor by Tom Wessels, Terrestrial EcologistDirty Business by David R. Montgomery, GeomorphologistFeed Your Soil by Bob Cannard and Fred Cline, Sustainable Farmer and VintnerNATIVE SOIL: “LOVED AND PROTECTEDâ€?Hostile Takeovers: An Ode to Guts and Gardens by Laura Pritchett, AuthorFight the Power by Eban Goodstein, Environmental EconomistBorn Again: Loving the Least Worst Land in Mississippi by Donald G. Schueler, AuthorStewards of the Land by Wes Jackson, Agricultural ActivistWe Are Soil by Vandana Shiva, Soil and Seed ActivistCity Dirt by Karen Washington, Urban FarmerSoil Versus Oil - Kale Versus Koch by Atina Diffley, Organic FarmerContributorsCreditsDisclosure: My Kindle edition was courtesy of ForeEdge for review purposes.
As a botanist by training and a plant-lover by birth, it's not hard to sell me on an anthology of writers, artists, and scientists writing about dirt. Dirt—or what scientists call "soil" when we're being snooty—is the underground ecosystem that plant roots know as well as leaves and stems know sunlight. It's an under-appreciated world critical to all life on earth.Dirt: A Love Story hooked me with the opening lines of novelist Pam Houston's Foreword:"I live on 120 acres of dirt in a high mountain meadow in the Eastern San Juan Mountains in south central Colorado, near the headwaters of the Rio Grande. A woman named Dona Blair sold me these acres for 7 percent down and a signed copy of my first book, Cowboys are My Weakness, because, she said, she liked the idea of me, and 7 percent down was all I had. I didn't have a job, either, or three pages of a new book to hold together. But my father was a hustler and he taught me to be a hustler and so for the next twenty years, I accepted every writing assignment and every teaching assignment that I was offered, and several more that I wasn't offered but had to go out and rustle up. I didn't sleep much in those two decades, but I love what I do for a living, and I am not sure our thirties and forties are supposed to be for sleeping anyhow."Pam Houston knows how to tell a story, as do most of the contributors to Dirt: A Love Story, from Barbara Richardson's Preface, "The God of Dirt"—"You can't fool dirt. Nor can you escape it... Dirt anchors us all in reality"—to Atina Diffley's triumphant final piece, "Soil Versus Oil—Kale Versus Koch," which tells how she and her Minnesota community defeated Koch Industries' proposal to bulldoze a crude oil pipeline right through the rich soil of her family's organic farm.Other standouts include CSA farmer and author Kayann Short's thoughtful essay, "Soil Versus Dirt"; memoirist and farmer's daughter Julene Bair's quietly sensuous "Dirt Princess"; novelist BK Loren's visionary "Dreaming in Dirt"; "Born Again" by author Donald G. Schueler, among the most wryly funny of Southern writers; filmmaker Deborah Koons Garcia's "Seeing Dirt"; novelist Laura Pritchett's self-deprecating and redemptive "Hostile Takeovers'; and "City Dirt," with its gospel-style call-and-response by urban farmer Karen Washington.Dirt is divided into thematic sections: "Land Centered" from writers whose lives are rooted in dirt, "Kid Stuff" about childhood dirt experiences' "Dirt Worship" on taking dirt love into adulthood; the science of dirt in "Dirt Facts"; and "Native Soil," on loving and defending the ground beneath our feet. It's a natural scheme with only one relatively minor drawback: most of the science voices fall in one section, slowing the melodic pace of the anthology. Scientists often don't learn how to communicate compellingly, and that's tragic, because their work is crucial to our lives and our understanding of this astonishingly complex and animate planet.Overall, Dirt showcases an outstanding chorus of voices, allowing them to intertwine, resonate and amplify each other and build to a kind of lyrical crescendo that will leave readers eager to get out and get down in their own dirt, the lively soil that lives beneath all our feet.by Susan J. Tweitfor Story Circle Book Reviewsreviewing books by, for, and about women
Dirt: A Love Story, by Liz Stephens PDF
Dirt: A Love Story, by Liz Stephens EPub
Dirt: A Love Story, by Liz Stephens Doc
Dirt: A Love Story, by Liz Stephens iBooks
Dirt: A Love Story, by Liz Stephens rtf
Dirt: A Love Story, by Liz Stephens Mobipocket
Dirt: A Love Story, by Liz Stephens Kindle
Dirt: A Love Story, by Liz Stephens PDF
Dirt: A Love Story, by Liz Stephens PDF
Dirt: A Love Story, by Liz Stephens PDF
Dirt: A Love Story, by Liz Stephens PDF
This post was written by: Author Name
Your description comes here!
Posting Komentar