Imaginary Gardens

Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
Edward O Wilson (2006)

Part 5: Reaching Across

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces of society. Together they can save the Creation.


17. An Alliance for Life ( Read more... )


About the Author

“…the Crafoord Prize, given by the Royal Swedish academy of Sciences for fields it does not cover by the Nobel Prize”


See also:

Orians, George H. & Judith H. Heerwagen. (1992) “Evolved responses to landscapes” in The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture. (J.H. Barkow, L. Comsmides, J. Tooby. Eds.)
Frumkin, H. (2001) “Beyond toxicity: human health and the natural environment” American Journal of Preventive Medicine 20: 234-240
Mittermeier, Russell A., et al. (2005) Hotspots revisited : Earth’s biologically richest and most endangered terrestrial ecosystems.
Louv, Richard. (2005) Last child in the woods: saving our children from nature-deficit disorder.


* ibid

Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
Edward O Wilson (2006)

Part 3: What Science Has Learned

Arguments for saving the rest of life are drawn from both religion and science. The relevant principles of biology, the key science in this discourse, are explained here.


11. Biology Is the Study of Nature ( Excerpts. )


12. The Fundamental Laws of Biology ( Excerpts. )


13. Exploration of a Little-Known Planet ( Excerpts. )


* ibid

Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
Edward O Wilson (2006)


Part 1: The Creation

A call for help and an invitation to visit the embattled natural world in the company of a biologist.


1. Letter to a Southern Baptist Pastor: Salutation ( Excerpts. )


2. Ascending to Nature( Excerpts. )


3. What is Nature? ( Excerpts. )


4. Why Care? ( Excerpts. )


5. Alien Invaders from Planet Earth ( Excerpts. )


6. Two Magnificent Animals ( Excerpts. )


7. Wild Nature and Human Nature ( Excerpts. )


* EOWilson, The Creation