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Chargement... The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoodspar Julia Hill
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I gave this Book 5 stars not for writing style, but for content. Ms. Hill has written a book that is accessible for younger people and tells a very strong story. There are flaws in the writing style, but her story is inspirational. Everyone should do something worthwhile in their life, she did it and she wrote her story. Bravo for her ( ) A lot of Hill's prose is of the amorphously spiritual variety. And that's okay because that's who she is and (to me, anyway) she never comes across as insisting you share in that vision. I find the more important aspect of her writing the insistence on the need for empathy; to see each other as living individuals rather than cardboard cut-outs. Only then can meaningful dialog occur. And without meaningful dialog, everything will continue to deteriorate. I'm giving the book 3 stars because, as a book it is written only moderately well, in spite of the compelling story. But I would encourage you to read it, nonetheless. It is relatively short, so your time investment will be small. I don't normally read memoirs, and I didn't particularly expect to enjoy this one, but I was reading Richard Powers' Overstory and could tell that one of his main characters was based on Julia Butterfly Hill, so I decided to skim her memoir. This turns out to be a profoundly moving and inspiring story. Hill spent 738 days in a tree, educating herself about the logging industry and activism so that she could prevent the tree from being cut down. Dealing with life in the tree was actually the easiest of her hardships - she became a major figure in the media, and a lot of her days were spent talking on her solar-powered cellphone to the media, lawyers, and representatives of logging companies. Through all of this, she maintained a strong belief in a higher power, in the ultimate goodness of humanity, and in the power of love to solve all problems. It's hard to read this book and not be inspired to go fight for a cause. I wish more people had the moral strength and clear vision that Hill has. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from "Luna," a thousandyear-old redwood in Humboldt County, California. Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree high on a mountain on December 10, 1997, for what she thought would be a two- to three-week-long "tree-sit." The action was intended to stop Pacific Lumber, a division of the Maxxam Corporation, from the environmentally destructive process of clear-cutting the ancient redwood and the trees around it. The area immediately next to Luna had already been stripped and, because, as many believed, nothing was left to hold the soil to the mountain, a huge part of the hill had slid into the town of Stafford, wiping out many homes. Over the course of what turned into an historic civil action, Hill endured El Nino storms, helicopter harassment, a ten-day siege by company security guards, and the tremendous sorrow brought about by an old-growth forest's destruction. This story--written while she lived on a tiny platform eighteen stories off the ground--is one that only she can tell. Twenty-five-year-old Julia Butterfly Hill never planned to become what some have called her--the Rosa Parks of the environmental movement. Shenever expected to be honored as one of Good Housekeeping's "Most Admired Women of 1998" and George magazine's "20 Most Interesting Women in Politics," to be featured in People magazine's "25 Most Intriguing People of the Year" issue, or to receive hundreds of letters weekly from young people around the world. Indeed, when she first climbed into Luna, she had no way of knowing the harrowing weather conditions and the attacks on her and her cause. She had no idea of the loneliness she would face or that her feet wouldn't touch ground for more than two years. She couldn't predict the pain of being an eyewitness to the attempted destruction of one of the last ancient redwood forests in the world, nor could she anticipate the immeasurable strength she would gain or the life lessons she would learn from Luna. Although her brave vigil and indomitable spirit have made her a heroine in the eyes of many, Julia's story is a simple, heartening tale of love, conviction, and the profound courage she has summoned to fight for our earth's legacy. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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