Arborphilia and Sacred Rebellion
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https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v7i3.239Keywords:
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While human perceptions of trees are variable, arborphilia—friendly or loving feelings toward trees—is common.1 Sometimes such fellow feeling precipitates rebellion.References
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Buell, Lawrence. 1995. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press).
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Harrison, Robert Pogue. 1992. Forests: The Shadow of Civilization (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). Doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226318059.001.0001.
Hoyt, Robert. 1995. ‘Trees’. Dumpster Diving across America (Decatur GA: Folk-the-Boat).
Jones, Owain, and Paul J. Cloke. 2002. Tree Cultures: The Place of Trees and Trees in Their Place (Oxford: Berg).
Kellert, Stephen R., and Edward O. Wilson (eds.). 1993. The Biophilia Hypothesis (Washington, DC: Island Press).
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Wilson, Edward O. 1984. Biophilia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).
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Taylor, B. (2013). Arborphilia and Sacred Rebellion. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 7(3), 239-242. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v7i3.239
