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David Orr

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born

in The United States

January 01, 1974

gender

male

website

http://www.davidorr.com

genre

Poetry, Nonfiction

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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.

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Average rating: 3.51 · 543 ratings · 147 reviews · 11 distinct works · Similar authors

	Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry 3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 283 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hope Is an Imperative: The Essential David Orr by David Orr, Fritjof Capra (Foreword by) 4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Down to the Wire 3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poetry 2.0 of 5 stars 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A New Battlefield: The Royal Ulster Rifles in Korea, 1950-51 by David Orr, David Truesdale 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Directions in Employability: Reducing Barriers to Full Employment 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1973	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets by Dominic Luxford (Editor), David Orr (Introduction) 3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2007	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift by Andres R. Edwards, David W. Orr (Foreword by), David Orr (Foreword by) 3.04 of 5 stars 3.04 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	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) 3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1995	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making a Difference College & Graduate Guide: Outstanding Colleges to Help You Make a Better World by Miriam Weinstein (Editor), Marty Nemko, David Orr 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1993 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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

tags: hope

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“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

36 people liked it

“It makes far better sense to reshape ourselves to fit a finite planet than to attempt to reshape the planet to fit our infinite wants”
― David Orr

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