Diana Kappel-Smith
Autor von Desert Time: A Journey Through the American Southwest
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- Geburtstag
- 1951
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Connecticut, USA
- Wohnorte
- Arizona, USA
Vermont, USA
Rowayton, Connecticut, USA - Ausbildung
- University of Vermont (Biology)
- Berufe
- botanist
writer
farmer
illustrator
landscape designer - Kurzbiographie
- see http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/bio...
Diana Kappel-Smith: (b. 1951)
PUB. DATE
January 2002
SOURCE
At Home on This Earth: Two Centuries of U.S. Women's Nature Writ;2002, p352
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Book
DOC. TYPE
Biography
a photo may be seen here: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid...
Other essays include:
1) My Life with a Field Guide (Book Review)
Kappel-Smith, Diana ; Diana Kappel-Smith
The American Scholar, 1 April 2002, Vol.71(2), pp.136-140
2)
NIGHT VISION: WHY YOU CAN SEE IN THE DARK
Kappel-Smith, Diana
Odyssey, May 2007, Vol.16(5), p.11 and/or Mar 1999 Vol 8(3), p.11
3)Sensing THE Night
Kappel-Smith, Diana
Odyssey, May 2007, Vol.16(5), pp.6-10
4)
Fickle desert blooms: Opulent one year, no-shows the next
Kappel-Smith, Diana
Smithsonian, Mar 1995, Vol.25(12), pp.78-91
5)Books for Earth Day and beyond. (Earth Day: 20 Years Later, part 3) (directory)
Kappel - Smith, Diana
The Christian Science Monitor, April 18, 1990, Vol.82(99), p.12
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Even when we learn facts, they are sprinkled in with her recounting of an experience and not just set down isolated. So if we learn that the temperature at soil surface under winter snow is +/-34°, we remember because she also told us about walking thru the swamp carrying a temperature probe, clambering over alders, checking the temp inside beaver lodges (45°), and follows with animals and insects are doing there, and how that temperature affects snow melting and composition and...
She is a relatively young writer, and some of her examples relate to her university studies (including one I love: when she was spending days peering at a microscope, looked out the window and realized she couldn't do that anymore, her daydream of exploding the walls & proclaiming to the audience at her presentation "get outside!").
She is thinking about the meaning of life, and how we respond. "If birds' migration is any measure of the thing, then the molt and fattening and flight of the spirit is the most painful and daring work we could ever garner the courage to do."(p.11) "Whether of the year of of the spirit, winter is...a hard journey in which old energies have to be put to new use, and it pushes to the limit whatever inventive and seminal resources life has. What survives has changed...the goal seems to be nothing less than transformation."(p.268-9) "What if...the highest work of my lifetime had been to collect the complex, the mazy, and subtle, and offer them like prayers..."(p.17)
Not only is her writing beautifully imaginative, she has illustrated it with pencil drawings which help us see the interconnectedness of life.
"It is convenient to make of trees things that are no longer our friends but manipulable objects."(p.71) "this forest as a single live fabric, jazzed with life, woven warp and woof over the planetary bones. The bones move, the fabric flexes like the skin on a hand."(p.70)
I'm going to have to buy my own copy of this book--borrowed from library.… (mehr)