Invisible Landscapes: Learning from Nature in the City
Location
Multimedia Hall, Bunch Library
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
16-9-2009 4:30 PM
Description
John Tallmadge's 2004 book, The Cincinnati Arch: Learning from Nature in the City, recounts how a wilderness lover relocates to the Rust Belt and learns from his children and his neighborhood how to value urban nature as a scene of delight and instruction. T he "arch" of the book's title is richly resonant: as the name of a geologic formation molding the urban landscape that Tallmadge comes to love; as an archetypal building form; and, in its parabolic shape, as a metaphor for life's journey. Filled with luminous lessons of mindfulness, attentiveness, and other spiritual practices, this book is a hopeful guide for finding nature and balance in unlikely places. Please join us for Dr. Tallmadge's presentation as he reads from and speaks about his teaching and his book.
John Tallmadge has dedicated his career to writing and teaching about the environment, pedagogy, and sustainability. He is the author of three books-The Cincinnati Arch, Meeting the Tree of Life: A Teacher's Path, and Reading under the Sign of Nature: New Essays in Ecocriticisrrras well as numerous articles in journals such as Orion, Utne Reader, and Audubon. Filled with luminous lessons of mindfulness, attentiveness, and other spiritual practices, his most recent book, The Cincinnati Arch, is a hopeful guide for finding nature and balance in unlikely places.
Recommended Citation
Tallmadge, John, "Invisible Landscapes: Learning from Nature in the City" (2009). Humanities Symposium. 13.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2009/2009/13
Invisible Landscapes: Learning from Nature in the City
Multimedia Hall, Bunch Library
John Tallmadge's 2004 book, The Cincinnati Arch: Learning from Nature in the City, recounts how a wilderness lover relocates to the Rust Belt and learns from his children and his neighborhood how to value urban nature as a scene of delight and instruction. T he "arch" of the book's title is richly resonant: as the name of a geologic formation molding the urban landscape that Tallmadge comes to love; as an archetypal building form; and, in its parabolic shape, as a metaphor for life's journey. Filled with luminous lessons of mindfulness, attentiveness, and other spiritual practices, this book is a hopeful guide for finding nature and balance in unlikely places. Please join us for Dr. Tallmadge's presentation as he reads from and speaks about his teaching and his book.
John Tallmadge has dedicated his career to writing and teaching about the environment, pedagogy, and sustainability. He is the author of three books-The Cincinnati Arch, Meeting the Tree of Life: A Teacher's Path, and Reading under the Sign of Nature: New Essays in Ecocriticisrrras well as numerous articles in journals such as Orion, Utne Reader, and Audubon. Filled with luminous lessons of mindfulness, attentiveness, and other spiritual practices, his most recent book, The Cincinnati Arch, is a hopeful guide for finding nature and balance in unlikely places.
Comments
Convo: AL
Refreshments to follow, Leu Art Gallery (Bunch Library), 5:30-6:15 p.m.