Word: naturalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French naturalist in Medford imported some gypsy moths for a breeding experiment. A few of the moths escaped, and the species had become ? severe pest by the turn of the century. The caterpillars completely defoliated Cambridge's trees, and most of Harvard's elms died, only to be replaced by more elms...
...this were all, Boyle's book would be merely a timely polemic on an important and fashionable topic. But Boyle, a staff member for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, is more than an enraged critic. He is an accomplished journalist-naturalist with a curious blend of love, knowledge and perspective that help turn his "natural and unnatural history" of a river into what should become a small classic...
...becoming aware that nature nuts, bird watchers (as private interests call them) and conservationists may be fighting not only for the survival of the shad, the blue heron and the osprey, but for the survival of the human species. Boyle tells the story of 19th century Naturalist Verplanck Colvin who gave his life struggling to create what eventually became Adirondack State Park. The story-and this book-are a reminder that while Americans were busy getting and spending, much of the country was preserved for them by fond zealots and near madmen...
...character in search of a more than worthy author. In Peter Matthiessen, Mexican-American leader Cesar Chavez would seem to have found the perfect biographer. As a novelist (At Play in the Fields of the Lord), Matthiessen has a proven taste for mystics, especially from Latin America. As a naturalist (Wildlife in America), he has shown true indignation at the greedy exploitation of man and nature. Small wonder that in this book he begins by investing Chavez's selfless fight against the California grape growers with vast moral significance. The title means "escape if you can." And Matthiessen sees...
...evening's naturalist was Sally Eaton. The words, "Welcome, sulfur dioxide. Hello, carbon monoxide. The air, the air is everywhere" emerge in Air with the freshness of a girl totally removed from the polluted world of New York City, Miss Eaton plays an innocent girl with a giant stomach. She wins the sympathy of every mother and father in the house as she tells them of the boy she loves, and the speed freak who knocked...