Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (The World As Home)
by Janisse Ray

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Ray grew up in a junkyard outside what had been longleaf pine forest, an ecosystem that has nearly disappeared in the American South through excessive logging. Her family had little money, but that was not important; they more than made up for material want through unabashed love and a passion for learning, values that underlie every turn of Ray's narrative. She finds beauty in weeds and puddles, celebrates the ways of tortoises and woodpeckers, and argues powerfully for the virtues of establishing a connection with one's native ground.

"I carry the landscape inside like an ache," Ray writes. Her evocations of fog-enshrouded woods and old ways of living are not without pain for all that has been lost--but full of hope as well for what can be saved. --Gregory McNamee

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• Subjects > Biographies & Memoirs > Regional U.S. > South
• History > Americas > United States
• Science & Math > Biological Sciences > Ecology
• Nature & Ecology
• Conservation