{"product_id":"9781595347879","title":"Talking on the Water: Conversations about Nature and Creativity","description":"During the 1980s and 1990s, the Resource Institute, headed by Jonathan White, held a series of \"floating seminars\" aboard a sixty-five-foot schooner featuring leading thinkers and artists from a broad array of disciplines. Over a period of ten years, White conducted interviews with the writers, scientists, environmentalists, and poets who gathered on board to explore our relationship to the wild. The interviews are gathered in this sparkling collection. Some of these visionaries are still making history, while others have passed away, making this legacy especially vital to the narrative about our planet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhite describes the conversations in \u003ci\u003eTalking on the Water\u003c\/i\u003e as the \"roots\" of an integrated community. \"While at first these roots may not appear to be linked, a closer look reveals that they are sustained in common ground. Whether we are talking to a poet, a biologist, a science fiction writer, or an ex-Dominican priest, all of these people share a deep and longstanding concern for their relationship with nature.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeloved fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin discusses the nature of language, microbiologist Lynn Margulis contemplates Darwin's career and the many meanings of evolution, and anthropologist Richard Nelson sifts through the spiritual life of Alaska's native people. Rounding out","brand":"Trinity University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182928773360,"sku":"9781595347879","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781595347879_p0.jpg?v=1763811350","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781595347879","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}