THEthe world, judging by the 4 books to read of the weekit’s not just what appears: that’s much more. It is a live organism where everything, but everything lives. The trees live, the pittime and the alletins of Lapland live. Our same universe lives.
They are fascinating readings those selected because they make us understand one thing basically: Man is not the absolute master of the earth, the man is only part of it. The earth and its creatures have in fact coexized for billions of years transforming a cluster of orbiting rock into a cosmic oasis, a planet that breathes, metabolizes and regulates its climate.
And, although it is now acquired by the science that the senses are not only five as Aristotle claimed, but many more, we humans continue to “think about” that way and, in doing so, We lose infinite nuances of ourselves.
4 books to read to overcome the anthropocentric vision
In Sentients The zoologist Jackie Higgins on his journey around the world to study animals, he discovered, for example, The allec of Lapland that feels twenty decibel twenty under the limit of the human ear. The tiny mole with a starred muzzle that “sees” with his miraculous nose. And then the Pcome out-fantasma with his night vision. It says that ciascuna of these creatures embodies a sense that exists, dormant, even within us.
A fascinating story, as well as Markus Zusak’s Memoir, Swiss bestseller writer, who in Three huge dogs and some human (Piemme) tells in an exciting story the story of the adoption of his three dogs, Reuben, Archer And FROSTY which brought the C to the housetotal aos. But, at the same time, time lessons to be learned.
Read trees
In the same way the writer and member of the Royal Institute of Navigation and the Royal Geographical Society, Tristan Gooley, He tells us in his Read trees (Others) that each tree is like a book: the leaves, the resin, the footprints of animals around the roots are signs that reveal secrets on its life and on the landscape in which we find ourselves, clues to the secret language of trees and natural wonders around us.
Every tree we meet can talk to us, if we know how to listen to it, and explain to us where we are, and perhaps even who we really are.
Read the trees (Tristan Gooley)
Each tree is like a book: the leaves, the resin, the footprints of animals around the roots are signs that reveal secrets on its life and on the landscape in which we find ourselves, clues to the secret language of the trees and the natural wonders around us.
Let’s imagine being away from home. We are in a coniferous forest, or in a rainforest. We believe we have lost it, but we really don’t really. Every tree we meet can talk to us, If we know how to listen to it, and explain to us where we are, and perhaps even who we really are.
The clues are not difficult to findif we have someone next to it capable of indicating where to look for them. And nobody knows how to be a better guide, more erudite and at the same time more light -hearted, than Tristan Gooley, the “Sherlock Holmes of the natural world”, as the BBC defined it.
In Read the trees, Gooley – whose method of “natural orientation” made it a celebrity in the world of landscape sciences – leads us on a journey to discover branches, leaves, roots, explaining simple principles to recognize forms, recurring motifs, signals. With the grace of a naturalist of the past, capable of mixing science and literature, empirical tests and symbols, Gooley – writer and member of the Royal Institute of Navigation and the Royal Geographical Society – He teaches readers a method of looking at the trees that surround us that it is not only a compass to orient themselves in a forest, but a call Carented to rediscover those parts of ourselves who, in the hustle and bustle of the contemporary world, we believed we had forgotten.
A creature called earth (Ferris Jabr)
One of the oldest beliefs of humanity is that our planet is alive. Despite having been ridiculed by some scientists, in recent decades The idea of the earth as an immense and interconnected living system has gained consensthe. We, and all living beings, are much more than simple inhabitants of the earth: We are the earth, a result of its physical structure and an engine of its Global cyclesthe.
The earth and its creatures have in fact coexized for billions of years transforming a cluster of orbiting rock into a cosmic oasis, A planet that breathes, metabolizes and regulates its climate.
Going back from the deep of the earth’s crust, swimming in the underwater forests, climbing the tower of an observatory halfway between the tops of the trees and the clouds, the scientific journalist Ferris Jabr reveals a new and radical vision of the land in which lush forests release water, pollen and bacteria to evoke the rain; giant mammals shape the landscape in which they live; microbes chew the rock to model the continents; And Microscopic Placton renews the air and the sea.
Human beings are the most extreme example of the transforming action of life on earth. But we are also able, in a unique way, to understand and protect the balance of the planet and its self-stabilization processes.
A creature called land It is an exploration of the ways in which life has transformed the planet and a celebration of the prodigious ecology that supports our world. It is a book on how the planet has become the land as we know it, as it is quickly changing, and how we will help determine what type of earth will inherit our descendants in the millennia to come.
Info. A creature called land. Ferris Jabr. Aboca Edizioni
Three huge dogs and some human (Markus Zusak)
Markus Zusak He opens the doors of the house to tell how his family had the brilliant – or perhaps crazy – idea of adopting three abandoned dogs. Reuben, who seems more wolf than dog; Archerwho nibbles until the good carpet destroy and then looks at you with an innocent air, as if to say: “Well, it’s your fault”. AND FROSTY? He demolishes the house and then he cares about you, tender and peaceful, while calling the carpenter to ask for a quote. The result? Total chaos. Between laughter, unexpected events and permanent damage to the garden, the catastrophe seems inevitable. Yet, just in the midst of that confusion, something happens. The failures become lessons, the disorder turns into a fertile ground to grow and, above everything, a love explodes so intense as to make it unthinkable to go back. Three huge dogs (and some human) is an ironic and ruthless memoir, which tells the havoc, the bonds that change you and that disordered beauty that only an animal can bring to your life.
Info. Three huge dogs. Markus Zusak. Piemme
Sentients (Jackie Higgins)
Despite being now acquired by science that The senses are not only five As Aristotle claimed, but many more, We humans continue to “think about” that way And, in doing so, we lose infinite nuances of ourselves.
There Jackie Higgins zoologist He traveled the globe to study the animals and in this poetic and surprising essay, a gallery of wonders discourages us, to discover the senses that we did not know we have and that we recognize in finding them amplified and enhanced in the animal world.
There is the Pavone canocchia, a small crustacean Which, in addition to boasting a “hook” capable of incrubating the wall of an aquarium, sees colors unknown to us. The allec of Lapland that feels twenty decibel twenty under the limit of the human ear. The tiny mole with a starred muzzle that “sees” with his miraculous nose. And then the Pcome out-fantasma and his night vision, the vampire bat And its sense of touch, the lesser pitziness, the common octopus, the cheetah and the unlikely ornitorinco with an electric beak. Each of these creatures embodies a sense that exists, dormant, Even within us, and their stories – who intertwine with the narration of compelling scientific investigations as much as a Sherlock Holmes adventure – will change our perspective forever on who we are and what we can do.
Info. Sentients. Jackie Higgins. Longanesi
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