I’ve recently read South by Ernest Shackleton and Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake and I’ve enjoyed the contrast between both of these books.The latter is about how powerful and useful the humble mushroom is to both humans and animals and the former is about a captain and his mates defying the odds of being shipwrecked in the Antarctic and doing whatever is necessary to survive in an ice desert and save his crew mates.This has enabled me to appreciate the duality of the natural world more and would like to delve further if you have any recommendation. Thank you :)
>>2859825>Man vs Nature trope..how about "man as a humble part of the infinite web of nature" and not "christ-chuds trying to dominate and failing every time"
This one.
>>2859838>"christ-chuds trying to dominate and failing every time"You are misinformed. Christian theology teaches stewardship of nature, not domination like a tyrant.When people try to "dominate" nature, it is because of their own vice, such as corporate greed.
>>2860314This.
>>2860314tell that to every prosperity gospel koolaid chugging evangelical in america right now
>>2862884these "evangelical chuds" of yours... are they in the room with you right now?
>>2862885>in the room with youyou can drive a block without seeing another megachurch here, so yeah pretty much! greedy fucks
>>2862917This is so clearly deceptiveWhy did you even bother You are too stupid to manipulate people
Christcucks are overwhelmingly conservative, and modern judeo-christian fundamentalists are about the furthest thing from conservationism or preservationist thought that you can imagine. Conservatives grifters want to clearcut forests for timber and to make space for disgusting blighted open pit coal mines. They believe god put them on this earth to exploit its resources and have no regard or responsibility for the natural wonders that they are destroying and that their children will be denied.
>>2859838>>2862917>>2862932children do not want to have sex with you.
>>2862885You're describing human nature and blaming it on specific humans you fucking retard
Anyway. This book made 11 year old me want to run off into the woods and raise a falcon.
>>2859825Most of movies and documentaries by Werner Herzog. Jungles as an hardcore and fast mix of predation, sex, decay and parasitism.(compared to "calms" deserts, plains and temperate forests)Aguirre - fitzcarraldo for jungle fictionsEncounters at the end of the world (documentary on an antartica base) He is/was an out guy and did other movies about volcanoes, caving, aboriginals, german mysteries...There is also some epic exploration authors, what I may call innocent colonialism, it kind of stopped in the last century, sometimes with brutality, or far less morals, environment concerns, cautions, meds...Authors like Jules Crevaux, Sir Richard Burton, siberian explorers, poles explorers, even spanish conquistadores. Navigators like Joshua Slocum.Also Thoreau ( I thought it was overestimated but it's not), and Charles Darwin's travel diary.You can have a look into anthropology for studies of the concepts of nature and culture in other civilizations ( Philippe Descola, Claude Levi Strauss "Sade tropics" novel, or any other badass anthropologist.)
>>2862884>evangelicalnot Christian
I found Cry of the Kalahari in a previous book thread, and it bears mentioning again. It's equally wonderful, beautiful and tragic. If not for the pictures the authors took, I would have struggled to believe some of the things described in the book. Really the kind of book to leave an impression. White Hunters: The Golden Age of African Safaris, by Brian Herne, also has some amazing stories, these from colonial Africa and through modern times. It also shows how some of the great white hunters realized the error of their ways and became conservationists in their old age. The description of the Mau-Mau crisis is almost bizarre at times. Anyone who's read their Wilbur Smith can probably recognize a good few events the good Mr. Smith adapted for his books.No Picnic on Mount Kenya is amazingly lighthearted for a book by a prisoner of war, who decides to escape the POW camp to climb Mount Kenya. Beautiful depictions of nature, supplemented with photos and drawings.Helge Ingstad wrote The Land of Feast and Famine after his years living as a trapper in Canada. It's wonderfully down to earth, and clearly written by someone who has a great deal of respect for nature.
