Gary Paul Nabhan
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Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Food
6 editions
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2001
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The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country
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1982
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Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity
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2004
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The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places
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1994
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Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine
10 editions
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2008
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Gathering the Desert
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1985
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Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves: An American Naturalist in Italy
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1993
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Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation
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4 editions
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1989
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Food, Genes, and Culture: Eating Right for Your Origins
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2013
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Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey
9 editions
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2013
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“play has become too domesticated and regimented while playgrounds themselves have become more and more barren. May today are devoid of vegetation with which to form nests, shelters, wands, dolls, or other playthings...These concerns are best explored in a heterogeneous habitat, where several secret niches are harbored, the kinds that can no longer be found on prefabricated metal and plastic jungle gym.”
― The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places
― The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places
“Solitude takes time, and caregivers to children have no time. Our children demand attention and need care. They ask questions and parents must answer. The number of decisions that go into a week of parenting astonishes me. Women have known for centuries what I have just discovered: going to work every day is far easier than staying home raising children...thoughtful parenting requires time to think, and parents of young children do not have time to think...One middle-aged female writing student spoke to me of feeling she lacked the freedom to "play hooky in nature"; it is an act of leisure men indulge in while women stay at home, keeping domestic life in order. Men often can justify poking around in the woods as a part of their profession, or as part of an acceptably manly activity like hunting or fishing. Women, for generations circumscribed by conventional values, must purposefully create opportunities for solitude, for exploration of nature or ideas, for writing.”
― The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places
― The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places
“I heard a young city boy ask an elderly Papago woman if, lacking a harvesting pole, one could ever collect fruit off the tall cacti by throwing rocks at the tops to knock the fruit down.
'NO!' Marquita replied with a strain of horror in her voice. 'The saguaros- they are Indians too. You don't EVER throw ANYTHING at them. If you hit them on the head with rocks you could kill them. You don't ever stick anything sharp into their skin either, or they will just dry up and die. You don't do anything to hurt them. They are Indians.”
― The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country
'NO!' Marquita replied with a strain of horror in her voice. 'The saguaros- they are Indians too. You don't EVER throw ANYTHING at them. If you hit them on the head with rocks you could kill them. You don't ever stick anything sharp into their skin either, or they will just dry up and die. You don't do anything to hurt them. They are Indians.”
― The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country
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