Paradise found
by Steve Nicholls · first published 2009
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Reminds me of a quote from Charles Eisenstein. He cites The Once and Future World and then channels Steve Nicholls in Paradise Found: "Atlantic salmon runs so abundant no one is able to sleep for their noise. Islands “as full of birds as a meadow is full of grass.” Whales so numerous they were a hazard to shipping, their spouts filling…
on “Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco” ↗…naturalists of previous centuries give staggering testimony to the incredible natural wealth of North America and other places before colonization. Here are some images from another book, Steve Nicholls’s Paradise Found: Atlantic salmon runs so abundant no one is able to sleep for their noise. Islands “as full of birds as a meadow is full of grass.” Whales so numerous they were a hazard to shipping, their spouts filling…
on “Climate Change Is Killing Alpine Skiing as We Know It” ↗What is the name of the book about shifting baselines? How 500 years ago you could throw a stone into the ocean anywhere and hit a fish? "Paradise Lost"? Edit: Found it: https://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Found-Nature-America-Discove...
on “Young people can't remember how much more wildlife there used to be” ↗…naturalists of previous centuries give staggering testimony to the incredible natural wealth of North America and other places before colonization. Here are some images from another book, Steve Nicholls’s Paradise Found: > Atlantic salmon runs so abundant no one is able to sleep for their noise. Islands “as full of birds as a meadow is full of grass.” Whales so numerous they were a hazard to shipping, their spouts filling…
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