The Biology of Wonder

This book presents the author's revolutionary approach to a hands-on biological science which rediscovers in a scientific way that feeling, meaning, imagination and the poetic dimensions are realities of ecology. The author challenges the long held belief in objectivity as a basic tenant of science and demonstrates that subjectivity of organisms is a physical factor. In the tradition of famous American nature writers and wilderness philosophers Thoreau, Muir, Leopold, Callicott and Snyder, Healing Ecology is the anthropocene's contribution to avant-garde thinking in life sciences The author is a university lecturer, writer and independent scholar who holds degrees in marine biology and cultural studies who writing has been published in newspapers and magazines such as National Geographic, GEO and Mare Magazine He is an avid naturalist with philosophical and artistic interests in music and literature. The book is an interdisciplinary synthesis of scientifically erudite and artistically passionate account of ourselves beyond the mind-body divide