The Pine Island Paradox
by Kathleen Dean Moore

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Sooner or later, you will face the island’s paradox.” Exploring the tide-washed shores of the pine island where her family regularly vacations, Kathleen Dean Moore writes about the idea of islands and the web of connections that lie beneath the visible surface.

A gifted storyteller with a sly sense of humor, Moore engages the reader with tales about her family and natural encounters on wilderness excursions or within the fences of her backyard. She writes about thousands of shrimp visible at the ebb tide, fungi her botanist father cultivated in the family refrigerator, her daughter’s night in jail, bad weather, grouse dancing on their lek, and the haunting note—the augmented fourth—heard in the call of a loon, the howl of a wolf, and sacred music. In essays full of rich surface detail, she weaves arguments about the hidden connections that bind the world. She speaks for an environmental ethic of caring that extends from our families to the special places we experience with them, a borderless zone of affection that embraces the human and natural world.

For Moore, the way we choose to live our lives speaks for a kinship that belies “the miserable, lonely world enlightenment philosophers have mapped out for us to live in.” Engaging thinkers past and present (among them Descartes, Hume, Mill, William James, Aldo Leopold, and Thoreau), she focuses on the way our world—the one we live in everyday—gives us opportunities to create moral synapses, to find the integrity that links our backyard garden to a wilderness area and everything in between.

PRAISE FOR KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE

“The essays in Holdfast are filled with infinite joys of observation, discovery and sharing knowledge of the natural world.”—Elizabeth Grossman, Oregonian

Moore is “pointing the way toward a new kind of nature writing, where the outdoors is in dialogue not only with our inmost souls, but with our families, our relationships.”—Bill McKibben

“Moore’s intense love for and close observation of nature combine with a keenly philosophical mind, reminiscent of the work of other fine philosopher-naturalists such as Thoreau, Dillard, and Muir.”—Library Journal

“‘There is one thing you will need to learn,’ a philosophy professor admonished [Moore] in college, ‘philosophy is not about life. Philosophy is about ideas. Life and ideas are not the same.’ Well, Moore may have paid dutiful respect to this authoritative statement, but her own book disproves that effort. . . . This is a meditation on doing and thinking.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

A B O U T T H E A U T H O R

Kathleen Dean Moore is the author of two award-winning books of nature essays, Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water and Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World. A Distinguished Professor of philosophy at Oregon State University, Moore writes about the cultural and spiritual values of water and wild places in such magazines as Audubon, Orion, Discover, Hope, and the New York Times Magazine. At OSU, she directs the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word.

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ISBN-10:	1571312811
ISBN-13/EAN:	9781571312815
Author:	Kathleen Dean Moore
Publisher:	Milkweed Editions Minneapolis, MN
Publication Date:	12/2005
Pages:	272 pp
Size/Dimensions:	5.25 x 8
Binding:	Paperback

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The Pine Island Paradoxby Kathleen Dean Moore

The Pine Island Paradox
by Kathleen Dean Moore