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In this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional notions of the desert. Beautiful, reflective, and at times humorous, Nabhans extended essay The Nature of Desert Nature reveals the complexity of what a desert is and can be. He passionately writes about what it is like to visit a desert and what living in a desert looks like when viewed through a new frame, turning age-old notions of the desert on their heads. Nabhan invites a prism of voicesfriends, colleagues, and advisors from his more than four decades of study of desertsto bring their own perspectives. Scientists, artists, desert contemplatives, poets, and writers bring the desert into view and investigate why these places compel us to walk through their sands and beneath their cacti and acacia. We observe the spines and spears, stings and songs of the desert anew. Unexpected. Surprising. Enchanting. Like the desert itself, each essay offers renewed vocabulary and thoughtful perceptions. The desert inspires wonder. Attending to history, culture, science, and spirit, Everything That Stings, Clings, or Sing s celebrates the bounty and the significance of desert pla

Who reads The nature of desert nature?

Author

Gary Paul Nabhan (Editor)

Publisher

The University of Arizona Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816540280

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Nature, Biology

Rating

4.5 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14