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Cross-Pollinations: The Marriage of Science and Poetry
A pioneering ethnobotanist, Gary Paul Nabhan credits the arts with sparking unlikely scientific breakthroughs and believes that such "cross-pollination" engenders new forms of expression that are essential to discovery. In this highly readable book, he tells four stories to illustrate this idea. In the first, coping with color blindness in art class leads to his career as a scientist; in the second, ancient American Indian songs, when translated, reveal an understanding of plants and animals that rivals modern research; in the third, a poem inspires an approach to diabetes using desert plants; and in the fourth, a coalition of scientists and artists creates the Ironwood Forest National Monument in the Sonoran Desert.
Book Details
- Publisher: Milkweed Editions
- Publish Date: Jan 6th, 2004
- Pages: 107
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.60in - 4.90in - 0.40in - 0.30lb
- EAN: 9781571312709
- Categories: • Essays• General• Philosophy & Social Aspects
Praise for this book
"From almost every scientific discipline has risen a voice that speaks to the laity in clear and coherent sentences--Stephen Jay Gould from paleontology, Carl Sagan from astronomy....And there is Gary Paul Nabhan, an ethnobiologist."