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Human health and well-being are inextricably linked to nature; our connection to the natural world is part of our biological inheritance. In this engaging book, a pioneer in the field of biophilia—the study of human beings' inherent affinity for nature—sets forth the first full account of nature's powerful influence on the quality of our lives. Stephen Kellert asserts that our capacities to think, feel, communicate, create, and find meaning in life all depend upon our relationship to nature. And yet our increasing disconnection and alienation from the natural world reflect how seriously we have undervalued its important role in our lives.
Weaving scientific findings together with personal experiences and perspectives, Kellert explores how our humanity in the most fundamental sense—including our physical health, and capacities for affection, aversion, intellect, control, aesthetics, exploitation, spirituality, and communication are deeply contingent on the quality of our connections to the natural world. Because of this dependency, the human species has developed over the course of its evolution an inherent need to affiliate with nature. But, like much of what it means to be human, this inborn tendency must be learned to become fully functional. In other words, it is a birthright that must be earned. He discusses how we can restore this balance to nature by means of changes in how we raise children, educate ourselves, use land and resources, develop building and community design, practice our ethics, and conduct our everyday lives. Kellert's moving book provides exactly what is needed now: a fresh understanding of how much our essential humanity relies on being a part of the natural world.
- Sales Rank: #1328930 in Books
- Published on: 2012-11-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.62" h x .88" w x 6.41" l, 1.14 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 264 pages
Review
“I cried as I read Birthright....So expressively and delicately does Kellert expose the emotional bonds among nature, humanity, and the individual that it’s difficult not to be moved."—Daniel J. Witter, D. J. Case & Associates (Daniel J. Witter 2012-03-20)
"This is a great distillation of decades of scholarship on what might be thought of as “biophilia and beyond.” This book will be of great interest to the growing public who sense that we have become too separate from nature."—Thomas E. Lovejoy, University Professor, George Mason University and Biodiversity Chair, The Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment (Thomas E. Lovejoy 2012-03-20)
“Birthright eloquently, clearly, and persuasively makes the case for the fundamental importance of humanity’s experiences with nature throughout life. This is the first time I’ve seen such an effective effort to provide a personal explanation that artfully uses everyday examples. Kellert's book will resonate with a wide variety of readers.”—Cheryl Charles, President and CEO, Children & Nature Network (Cheryl Charles 2012-03-20)
"Birthright is truly magnificent in so many ways. The empirical and intuitive are seamlessly woven together throughout. The book made me want to do something beautiful in the world! "—Gretel Van Wieren, Michigan State University (Gretel Van Wieren 2012-03-22)
“Stephen Kellert’s heartfelt Birthright is a moving memoir, a finely tuned analysis, and a gift to future generations and to the individuals and organizations determined to usher in a twenty-first-century human-nature reunion. Here is a topological map of that future.”—Richard Louv, author of The Nature Principle and chairman emeritus of the Children & Nature Network (Richard Louv 2012-03-23)
“Stephen R. Kellert invites readers on a companionable journey into neighborhood and urban center to reveal how biophilic design can help restore our ancient, beneficial relationship with the natural world.”—Terril Shorb, Ph.D., Prescott College (Terril Shorb 2012-03-23)
"Weaving a trove of learning together with engaging story and reflection, Kellert artfully explores how the deeply engrained human aptitude for kinship with all life is an adaptive strategy we need to get us through these uncertain times. The future depends on catalyzing 'long-tern human self-interest,' and this book shows how even the darker sides of our biophilia can serve this end. Here is a welcome tonic for toxic times, moving past polarized argument to the mindful persuasion of one who has found a sustaining connection with the natural world. This is a must-read for anyone who cares about the world and how to enrich our connection with the forces that sustain us."—Alison Hawthorne Deming, University of Arizona (Alison Hawthorne Deming 2012-08-03)
“Kellert successfully portrays his spiritual unity with the plants, animals, and elements that embrace and refresh him.” —Publishers Weekly (Publishers Weekly)
“An exploration of the specific ways in which a connection with the natural world affects the well-being of humankind. . . . Kellert isn’t advocating for a Luddite existence, but he argues convincingly for an increased understanding of our place as part of nature rather than just conquerors of it.” —Kirkus Reviews (Kirkus Reviews)
Honorable Mention, General-Non-Fiction category at the 2013 Green Book Festival sponsored by JM Northern LLC (Green Book Festival JM Northern Media LLC 2013-05-08)
Honorable Mention, General-Non-Fiction category at the 2013 San Francisco Book Festival sponsored by JM Northern LLC (San Francisco Book Festival JM Northern Media LLC 2013-05-08)
“Birthright reinforces the importance of nature in a healthy, fulfilling life and is an illuminating read that will resonate with lovers of the outdoors.”—Jack Fisher, The Leader, National Outdoor Leadership School (Jack Fisher The Leader, National Outdoor Leadership School)
“[T]his is a very thought-provoking book. . . . Kellert draws both on his personal opinions/observations as well as published peer-review literature. And it’s his personal interjections that infuse this book with a sense of wonderment and respect for the natural world. . . . By revealing his humanity in relation to nature, he helped me to better understand a bit of mine.”—T. DeLene Beeland, Wild Muse (T. DeLene Beeland Wild Muse)
“Birthright has much to recommend it, including its synthesis of Kellert’s many areas of expertise, its non-technical language, and its advocacy of an argument deserving of a hearing.”—Christian Diehm, Biological Conservation (Christian Diehm Biological Conservation)
"Kellert’s book will stimulate you not only how to rethink your life and its values, but how you might increase wonder in your life right now.”—Kevin T. McEneaney, The Millbrook Independent (The Millbrook Independent)
About the Author
Stephen R. Kellert is Tweedy Ordway Professor Emeritus and senior research scholar, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A Modern Druid
By Kevin McEneaney
Students of E. O. Wilson are translating his discoveries in sociobiology to other disciplines, especially in the new field of biophilia that Wilson created. Wilson defined biophilia as "the urge to affiliate with other forms of life.” Stephen Kellert, a former student of Wilson, has been one of Wilson’s foremost and successful advocates. Kellert’s twelfth book, birthright, investigates the love of nature from a psychological and ethical perspective. Wilson’s seminal influence has been branching into disciplines like architecture, environmentalism, anthropology, and even corporate life.
The central argument of Kellert’s new book? Unless we develop a culture that values and loves nature, our lives are diminished in various ways. Our recent and excessive fascination with the artificial world runs counter to the very environment which we evolved from. If we sever our ties with nature, we severely damage our practical common sense, which has made us the evolutionary wonders we are. Our birthright (the lower case type employed in the title invokes humility) to be happy must embrace both love of ourselves and our environment. Environmentalists often say that unless this happens, we will perish and leave the earth to insects and bacteria, yet the irony remains that bacteria and insects have much to teach us about life.
Our central strengths has been our paranoid brilliance. In some cases, this produces blindness. For example, no one loves the mosquito or poisonous spider, yet our fear of them has depreciated our ability to value all insects. Kellert’s chapter on insect fear is one of the most illuminating chapters in the book. Sometimes we don’t always love ourselves, and we sometimes project, unnecessarily, our fears onto the landscape. A great ironic line in the pop sci-fi flick Starship Troopers (1997) runs: “I thought we were smarter than the bugs.”
Like Wilson, Kellert appropriates personal anecdotes that run in tandem with astute psychological, aesthetic, ethical (and in Kellert’s arguments), religious observations. Kellert possesses a stronger sense of aesthetics (which, according to recent research, is genetically encoded in us) than Wilson, and is able to import biophilic perspectives (that interconnected gestalt of all living beings) into learning and working conditions, arguing through sociological statistics that healthy and beautiful environments mean more productive workers and learners. On the subject of poetry, he limits himself to quoting a poem about dreaming by seven-year-old Peter Weinberg. That poem should elicit envy from our most mature poets.
The French philosophes who dominated thinking from the 1960s through 1990s constructed wooden tree huts with tribal fiefdoms instead of forests. The attraction of Wilson’s theories in the hands of Kellert consists of its practical, Baconian presentation. Such a posture retains power through its universality, a universality not manifested since the syncretism of the Hellenic ideal that drew from all known religious traditions the new universal religion called Christianity. Later, St. Francis of Assisi revived Christianity by re-setting it within the pagan world-view from which Christianity had sprung before it strayed into artificial ritual and absurdly superstitious dogmas.
Wilson and Kellert propose that biophilic perspectives be applied to all disciplines, which is why Kellert, the Tweedy Ordway Professor Emeritus at Yale’s School of Forestry, is creating a master’s degree in Nature Studies for the Yale School of Divinity, which has been the top divinity school in America for the past two hundred years. Yale is ready to adapt, teach, and influence not only popular culture in our country, but the world.
Kellert’s book will stimulate you: not only how to rethink your life and its values, but how you might increase wonder in your life right now. Kellert’s eye is on the forest, not the individual tree that helped to produce this particular illumination. As a specialist in forestry, Kellert has interesting things to say about our cultural attitudes toward trees.
The word druid literally means tree priest.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
An important lens for decision-making about the future of the planet
By Paul Reader
Kellert distills a large body of historical, ecological and green theological literature, together personal accounts (Interludes) to construct a practical ecological discourse and instrument for measuring our relationship to life and death in the world. At one end we can measure the intensity of the Modern era of abstraction, anthropocentrism, urbanity and death; at the other biophilia, our love of life, living things and the potential act with celebration as a contributor to the living world.
I'm sure I will cite it often for the short cut it provides to ecological thinking.
On a minor point, his treatment of Christianity as a cause of anthropocentrism, after Lynn White, does not really do justice to much of Christian thinking in relation to Creation and life, and misses the point that Christianity is ultimately theocentric not anthropocentric. Of course this is an easy mistake to make given the practice of many Christians in the Modern world. There is also a tendency to privilege environmentally thinking intellectuals of the 20th and 19th Century, and indigenous knowledge, without acknowledgement of European folk knowledges and ecological relationships. European folk traditions still alive in pre-World War II and the closeness of these communities to the earth, their suffering under the advance of Modernism are voiceless in this discourse. The rise of urban intelectualism, is really far more recent than perhaps we often imagine.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Cutting Edge Analysis
By rholland24
Western civilization, the last 10,000 years, encompasses .3% of human life on this globe. Human need and capacity is largely determined by the preceding 99.7% of human existence. Stephen Kellert identifies what western civilization has obscured to our individual and collective detriment. This book is among my top ten overall for understanding the dysfunctions of our times.
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