~ http://www.womenwriters.net/may2001/BreathingPlants.htm
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"Claudia Lewis, in her essay, "Ode to Mold," is able to view even fungus in a new light: "the older I get, the more I appreciate the paradox of continuity and change, that life is wholly connected, a sustained, enduring expression of meaning, however mysteriously it is transformed" (29). This intense love for the natural world results from the subtle way these authors create estrangement from the typical manner of viewing nature.
In the preface, the editors state that 'outrage begins in love' (xiv). This outrage, subtly yet inescapably present throughout these works, is reflected in Mary Crow Dog’s essay, "Peyote." Crow Dog moves beyond a traditional description of peyote toward a more potent understanding of what it means to her people, stating that "our only fear is that the whites will take this from us, too, as they have taken everything else" (72). Fiercely, Crow Dog is able to indirectly show that the natural world is not something to be annihilated or overpowered, and, that, by implication, the act of destroying the natural world has greater implications than almost anyone is able to comprehend. The many facets of nature are intimately united with these authors’ existences; what happens to parts or to the whole of the natural world also happens, in some way, to each of us."
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