Crossing Boundaries with Instinct

Authors

  • Zabe MacEachren

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/40625

Abstract

The mythtellers understood that the natural world is full of discrete beings, each entity differentiated from the rest of the world. They knew, probably better than we do, that a living thing acquires its energy by means of exchanges across a boundary, so that the living thing remains distinct from its environment, yet interacts continuously with it. [...]

References

Dina, James. (1989) Voyage of the Ant. Harrisburg: Stackpole Books

Kane, Sean. (1994) Wisdom of the Mythtellers. Peterborough: Broadview Press

Martina. Jerry. (1993) Poetry recitation at the 1993 Deep Ecology Institute Summer Workshop

Nelson, Richard. (1989) The Island Within. New York: Vintage Books

Raffan, James and Horwood, Bert. (1989) Canexus: the Canoe in Canadian Culture. Toronto: Betelgeuse Books

Published

1997-01-01

How to Cite

MacEachren, Z. (1997). Crossing Boundaries with Instinct. UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies, 9, 4–7. https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/40625

Issue

Vol. 9 (1997): Divisions, Boundaries, Territories

Section

Academic

License

Copyright (c) 1997 Zabe MacEachren

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