The bullhead queen : a year on Pioneer lake / Sue Leaf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leaf, Sue, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Minnesota--Chisago County.

Human ecology.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Minnesota--Chisago County.

Nature.

Natural history--Minnesota--Chisago County.

Natural history.

Chisago County (Minn.)--History.

Chisago County (Minn.).

Chisago County (Minn.)--Environmental conditions.

Chisago County (Minn.)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Western approach to nature has always operated under both spiritual and scientific views. While Christianity decrees that human beings have dominion over nature, evolutionary biology teaches us that we are but highly adapted animals among a biological network of millions of other species. What is our proper relationship to wild animals-and what is our responsibility to them? In The Bullhead Queen, Sue Leaf exemplifies the moral aspect of humans to nature through a collection of engaging meditations on the places she sees every day on Pioneer Lake in east-central Minnesota. Reflecting on th

Contents:

Waiting at advent

Counting at christmas

Wild ice

Christmas hockey

Morning star

Geese on the ice

Passing the salt

Winter geography

Lengthening

Owl invasion

What are animals for?

Ever living fire

Winged wonder

The rites of spring

The nest box war

Conspiracy

Illumined courtship

The bullhead queen

Skiing at flamin' feet

The green season

Rowing the mutant canoe

Ordinary time

Nighthawk day

Via dolorosa

Saints at work, saints at rest

Everyone a king.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8166-7061-7

OCLC:

646068318