David's Fans (2)

David Orr

Author profile

born

January 01, 1974 in The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.davidorr.com

genre

Poetry, Nonfiction

About this author

edit data

David Orr is the poetry columnist for the New York Times Book Review. He is the winner of the Nona Balakian Prize from the National Book Critics Circle and the Editor’s Prize for Reviewing from Poetrymagazine. Orr’s writing has appeared in Poetry, Slate, The Believer, and Pleiades magazine. He holds a B.A. from Princeton and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

combine editions
Books by David Orr

Average rating: 3.52 · 402 ratings · 115 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry 3.37 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Down to the Wire 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Hope Is an Imperative: The Essential David Orr by David Orr, Fritjof Capra (Foreword by) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Poetry 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	New Directions in Employability: Reducing Barriers to Full Employment 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1973	My rating:
	The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets by Dominic Luxford (Editor), David Orr (Introduction) 3.93 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift by Andres R. Edwards, David W. Orr (Foreword by), David Orr (Foreword by) 3.02 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century : Lessons in Smart Management from Administrators, Staff, and Students by Julian Keniry, David Orr (Foreword by), Jay D. Hair (Introduction) 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Making a Difference College & Graduate Guide: Outstanding Colleges to Help You Make a Better World by Miriam Weinstein, Marty Nemko, David Orr 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1993 — 7 editions	My rating:

More books by David Orr…

Upcoming Events

No scheduled events. Add an event.

Quotes by David Orr

“Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.”
― David Orr

tags: hope

130 people liked it

“Were we to confront our creaturehood squarely, how would we propose to educate? The answer, I think is implied in the root of the word education, educe, which means "to draw out." What needs to be drawn out is our affinity for life. That affinity needs opportunities to grow and flourish, it needs to be validated, it needs to be instructed and disciplined, and it needs to be harnessed to the goal of building humane and sustainable societies. Education that builds on our affinity for life would lead to a kind of awakening of possibilities and potentials that lie dormant and unused in the industrial-utilitarian mind. Therefore the task of education, as Dave Forman stated, is to help us 'open our souls to love this glorious, luxuriant, animated, planet.' The good news is that our own nature will help us in the process if we let it.”
― David Orr

tags: beauty , education , environment , human-nature , nature

26 people liked it

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The Book Addicts!: EllieNYC 200 Books to Love!	390	232	Dec 29, 2011 12:43pm
Cozy Mysteries : When you're not reading a cozy....	2570	1413	1 hour, 59 min ago

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite David to Goodreads.