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Jordan and Lubick expertly provide the first comprehensive history of ecological restoration, a history that is both long and wide. They take us back to the first manipulations of nature with fire by early man, through the development of agriculture, and then industrial-scale change and the emergence of a felt need to restore a bit of the world to some whole estate. They range widely through the natural and social sciences, humanities, and religious traditions to understand this urge to restore. --J. Baird Callicott University Distinguished Research Professor, University of North Texas This book would be supremely valuable even if it were simply an excellent history of ecological restoration which it is. It is also, however, a profound and innovative reflection on humans' complex relations with the nonhuman world. It ranges across many fields, including not only the natural sciences but also literature, history, philosophy, and religion. Jordan and Lubick weave their diverse sources together without ever losing sight of their central question how do we understand and come to terms with a nature that, in Emerson's words, 'leads us on and on but arrives nowhere'? --Anna Peterson Professor, Department of Religion, University of Florida Making Nature Whole would be an authoritative source for any discussion of either the future of restoration or man's relationship with nature. --Byron P. Anderson Electronic Green Journal This book would be supremely valuable even if it were simply an excellent history of ecological restoration--which it is. It is also, however, a profound and innovative reflection on humans' complex relations with the nonhuman world. It ranges across many fields, including not only the natural sciences but also literature, history, philosophy, and religion. Jordan and Lubick weave their diverse sources together without ever losing sight of their central question--how do we understand and come to terms with a nature that, in Emerson's words, 'leads us on and on but arrives nowhere'? --Anna Peterson Professor, Department of Religion, University of Florida (05/06/2011)

Making Nature Whole would be an authoritative source for any discussion of either the future of restoration or man's relationship with nature. <br>--Byron P. Anderson Electronic Green Journal

Jordan and Lubick expertly provide the first comprehensive history of ecological restoration, a history that is both long and wide. They take us back to the first manipulations of nature with fire by early man, through the development of agriculture, and then industrial-scale change and the emergence of a felt need to restore a bit of the world to some whole estate. They range widely through the natural and social sciences, humanities, and religious traditions to understand this urge to restore. <br><br>--J. Baird Callicott University Distinguished Research Professor, University of North Texas (05/06/2011)

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William R. Jordan is Director of the New Academy for Nature and Culture and Codirector of the Institute for Nature and Culture, DePaul University, in Chicago, Illinois. George M. Lubick is a historian who has taught courses in American environmental history and the American West at Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff.

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