Holdfast

At Home in the Natural World

By Kathleen Dean Moore

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Oregon State University Press

In twenty-one lucid and elegant essays, naturalist and philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore examines the human connection to nature. She strives to understand what holds her to family and place in a search for the metaphorical “holdfast” – a structure at the end of seaweed strands that attach to rocks with a grip that even ocean gales cannot rend.

RELATED TOPICS: Ecology, Environmental Studies, Nature

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Kathleen Dean Moore is the distinguished professor of philosophy at Oregon State University and the founder of OSU’s Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word.

Prologue

Acknowedgments

-Connection

The Testimony of the Marsh

Holdfast

Howling with Strangers

A Field Guide to Western Birds

The Thing about Dogs

Field Notes for an Aesthetic of Storms

The Western Singing Fish

-Separation

The Song of the Canyon Wren