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Author:	Marston Bates
Subcategory:	Biological Sciences
Language:	English
Publisher:	Time-Life Books (1980)
Category:	Math and Science
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Marston Bates was a fine writer and I've thoroughly enjoyed everything I've . But his perspective (and his writing) may make it worth the time to read. Bates' title reflects his awareness that a rain forest and a shallow sea can be mapped onto each other

Marston Bates was a fine writer and I've thoroughly enjoyed everything I've read of his work. His passion comes through loud and clear. Two examples: In the 1950s it was common to speak of dying a natural death –your body just wore out and eventually stopped working. Bates' title reflects his awareness that a rain forest and a shallow sea can be mapped onto each other. Most life occurs near the surface, on coral reefs and in the forest canopy.

I read it while taking a course on the Ecology of the Everglades in Jan. 1976.

The Forest and the Sea is one of these. Published in 1960, it is still very much worth reading. I read it while taking a course on the Ecology of the Everglades in Jan.

a look at the economy of nature and the ecology of man. by Marston Bates. Published 1964 by Time, inc. in New York OCLC/WorldCat. Prefer the physical book? Check nearby libraries with: WorldCat. in New York.

Written by. Marston Bates. a look at the economy of nature and the ecology of man. Manufacturer: Time-Life Books Release date: 11 April 1980 ISBN-10 : 0809435616 ISBN-13: 9780809435616. add. Separate tags with commas, spaces are allowed. Use tags to describe a product . for a movie Themes heist, drugs, kidnapping, coming of age Genre drama, parody, sci-fi, comedy Locations paris, submarine, new york.

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The Forest and the Sea : A Look at the Economy of Nature and the Ecology of Ma. This is an exploration of ecology written before the topic was politicized, by a scientist with wide experience in field and laboratory observation.

The Forest and the Sea : A Look at the Economy of Nature and the Ecology of Man. Though some particulars are dated - publication antecedes the theory of continental drift, Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, etc. - his observations run from the planetary to the particular and present a rich context for thought about the environment.

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Marston Bates was a fine writer and I've thoroughly enjoyed everything I've read of his work.
His passion comes through loud and clear. Thoroughly knowledgeable about many subjects, he often shares much that cannotbe found anywhere else.
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It loses a star because it’s 55 years old–and a lot has changed. There are a number of things in the book that are wrong or incomplete. Among them: We know so much about DNA now. Our knowledge of human evolution, of dog evolution, of the origins of agriculture is bigger and different. We have explored the deep ocean, and found in some undersea places life that does not get its energy, directly or indirectly, from the sun. We know it is a myth that “man is the only animal who kills his own kind.” Chimps, to take the most obvious example, are much more complicated and much less benign than educated opinion in 1960 said they were. Ecology has moved away from a preoccupation with “climax” ecosystems. Freud’s silly ideas have faded away. A niche conservationism has turned into a politically and culturally powerful environmentalism. And it is now bad manners to refer to humanity as “man”–as if half of homo sapiens don’t exist.

Yet remarkably, all this doesn’t take much away from the book. A lot of it is timeless. In many ways, Bates was ahead of his time. Which is kind of a problem. If you know something of natural history already, there isn’t a lot new here. But his perspective (and his writing) may make it worth the time to read. Two examples:

In the 1950s it was common to speak of “dying a natural death”–your body just wore out and eventually stopped working. Bates points out that almost no animals die that way. Life is taken from them by disease or starvation or cold or predation. Until recently, the same was true for people. A “natural death” is profoundly unnatural. Bates loves nature but he knows that it is, well, inhuman.

A quote from pages 246-7: “[This book has been about] the relations among individuals, populations, and communities of organisms, and on relations with the physical environment. ... Then we come to man and his place in this system of life. We could have left man out, playing the ecological game of, ‘Let’s pretend man does not exist.’ But this seems as unfair as the corresponding game of the economists, ‘Let’s pretend nature doesn’t exist.’”

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This is an exploration of ecology written before the topic was politicized, by a scientist with wide experience in field and laboratory observation. Though some particulars are dated - publication antecedes the theory of continental drift, Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, etc. - his observations run from the planetary to the particular and present a rich context for thought about the environment. For example, can we even discuss species as distinct from the environment? The atmosphere of our planet is as much a creation of life as it is a necessary support system. Every community creates feedback, every individual is a producer as well as a product. Bates traces the similarities between living systems in deserts, oceans, rainforests and ponds, and wonders if we are even able to see the real forest, let alone the trees. Other creatures receive sensory input at different wavelengths, from different organs, with different brains than we hominids - how can we possibly infer what motivates a mosquito? Bates' title reflects his awareness that a rain forest and a shallow sea can be mapped onto each other. Most life occurs near the surface, on coral reefs and in the forest canopy. We tend to see the reef as teeming with life and the forest as empty because of our viewpoint - our terrestrial bipedalism puts us on the surface of the sea and the bottom of the woods. Climbing to a platform in the tree tops is much like snorkeling among angel fish and urchins, one finds a teeming world. Finally, Bates discusses our place in nature, that dying of old age is hardly natural at all, that we have grasped longevity without embracing birth control and the implications of our industrial/agricultural impact on our own and the planet's future. I would add that there is a bit of charm in his old-fashioned manner, a tendency to wander into anecdotes and asides, always cogent, but producing a mental picture of a learned old coot offering a summation of his long and varied career. Good stuff!

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