Gaillardia World: Citations for "At Home on the Land? Welcome to Gaillardia World

 

Epigraphs

Frost, Robert.  “The Gift Outright.”  This line has been interpreted in wildly various ways, including that it refers to settlers’ life in the colonies before the formation of the United States.   The ecological interpretation is the one that resonates most profoundly with me.

Leopold, Aldo.  “Natural History.” A Sand County Almanac, with Essays on Conservation from Round River.   New York: Ballantine 1949;1953; 1966. p. 203.

Tallamy, Douglas W.   Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard. Portland: Timber Press, 2019.  p. 62.

Kimmerer, Robin Wall.  Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants.  Milkweed Editions, 2013.  pp. 346-347.

Carver, George Washington.  Qtd. by Clark, Glen.  The Man Who Talks with the Flowers: The Intimate Life Story of Dr. George Washington Carver.  Macalester Park, 1976.  pp. 44-45.

 

“at two with nature” Woody Allen, quoted in https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/18204-i-am-at-two-with-nature and https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/24/magazine/woody-and-mia-a-new-york-story.html

 

“You might start by planting a little garden…” Chadwick, Douglass.  Four Fifths a Grizzly: A New Perspective on Nature that Just Might Save Us All.  Patagonia Works: 2021.  P. 111.

“Homegrown National Park.”  Tallamy, Douglas W.   Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard. Portland: Timber Press, 2019.  pp. 61-76.

“ecological wasteland” Tallamy, Douglas W.   Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard. Portland: Timber Press, 2019.  p. 62.

 

 

“Knowing that you love the earth….” Kimmerer, Robin Wall.  Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants.  Milkweed Editions, 2013.  p. 125.

 “As soon as you begin to read the great and loving God”  Carver, George Washington.  George Washington Carver: In His Own Words.  Ed. Gary R. Kremer.  Columbia: U of Mo P, 2017. p. 158.

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”  Shakespeare, William.  A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  Act 3, Scene 2. 

“A little flower….”  Carver, George Washington.  Qtd. by Clark, Glen.  The Man Who Talks with the Flowers: The Intimate Life Story of Dr. George Washington Carver.  Macalester Park, 1976.  p. 45. 

“Land is a fountain of energy” Leopold, Aldo.  “The Land Ethic.” A Sand County Almanac, with Essays on Conservation from Round River.   New York: Ballantine 1949;1953; 1966. p.253.

“[The Potawatomi] understood a world of being”   pp. 47, 55.

“To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness” Carver, George Washington.  George Washington Carver: In His Own Words.  Ed. Gary R. Kremer.  Columbia: U of Mo P, 2017. p. 163. 

“The land is the real teacher.” Kimmerer, Robin Wall.  Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants.  Milkweed Editions, 2013. p. 222.

Appendix

“Greater Self”  Douglas Chadwick uses this terms to describe individual creatures’ interconnections with others.  Chadwick, Douglass.  Four Fifths a Grizzly: A New Perspective on Nature that Just Might Save Us All.  Patagonia Works: 2021. pp. 80-81.