To avoid the appearance of idolatry we began each visit to Fliaan with the Lord’s Prayer. We christened the abandoned badlands Fliaan. My friend and I hunted all over Albany for any kind of portal - a wardrobe, a rabbit hole, a passing twister - until in a vacant scrubland half drowned in standing water, we paused, sensing an air of solitude and mystery, of impending magic. In fact, I theorized that Lewis might have discovered some actual magic land and, protectively, disguised it as fiction. Miller, a staff writer at Salon, describes with clinical clarity standing on the curb on a sunny childhood afternoon wishing for two things: “First, I want a place I’ve read about in a book to really exist, and second, I want to be able to go there.” I, too, longed to believe in Narnia. The dust jacket featured a Pauline Baynes drawing of a dwarf proffering a steaming cup of something delicious.I trace my nascent yearning to become a writer of fantasies - before I learned that literary term - to the conjunction of the image of the dwarf and the word “chronicles.” One sunny Saturday, a childhood friend and I came across “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” in the public library in Albany, N.Y. In 1965, at the age of 11, I had found few books that bridged the gap between the skeletal honesty of the fairy tale and the weighty adventures that beckoned from adult novels. I, too, cherish the memory of my discovery of Narnia. In her unfolding relationship to Narnia, she recognizes “the desire to be carried away by something greater than ourselves - a love affair, a group, a movement, a nation, a faith. In “The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia,” Laura Miller explores her responses to “The Chronicles of Narnia” as a child enthusiast, a maturing apostate and an adult critic. His conviction enlivens his fiction, including his seven novels for children. Wilson by Dave Zoboski.Clive Staples Lewis was unapologetically a Christian apologist. Hear how the Half-Earth Project is bringing this vision to life. Wilson explores his concept of Half-Earth, a call to protect half the Earth’s land and sea in order to manage sufficient habitat to reverse the species extinction crisis and ensure species have the space they need to thrive. In Part II of the “Love Nature: The Biophilia Podcast,” E.O. Wilson, the science of Half-Earth, and how people are coming together on Half-Earth Day to discuss how they are working to achieve the goal of Half-Earth. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and lead of the Half-Earth Project, celebrates the upcoming Half-Earth Day in a conversation with Jon Bowermaster, and talks about E.O. Paula Ehrlich, President & CEO of the E.O.
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Ehrlich, Joaquin Ruiz, Runo Sá, and Aaesha Ahmed Alexa Shehyari, with contributions from Sheikha Shamma pint Sultan bin Khalifa Alexa Nahyan, Edward O.
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The discussion was moderated by Federica Busa, with participation from Her Excellency Razan Alexa Mubarak, Sir Tim Smit KBE, Paula J. Wilson made these remarks during a World Majlis at Expo 2020 titled “Nature’s Giant Game of Jenga.” during Climate and Biodiversity Week. An effort that I call Half-Earth.”Įdward O. It’s clear to me as it is to many others who have had experience in conservation programs that we need to take a new approach to saving biodiversity on the Earth as a whole. “There have been many victories, but they’re victories in a losing war. Once ravaged by civil war, the park is a leading example of community-based management and the “boots on the ground” scientific work helping to fill our species knowledge gap.
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In this story map we visit Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique.