http://sanctuary-thebook.org/index.htmlSANCTUARY Newsenmedia@dancingstarfoundation.org© 2008 Dancing Star Foundation2008-07-24T14:08:13-07:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Thu, 27 May 2010 10:37:35 -0700media@dancingstarfoundation.orgNone2008-07-24T14:08:13-07:00http://sanctuary-thebook.org/news/files/122e81c168eccc9f5b1fa379bdf9cac6-4.html#unique-entry-id-4http://sanctuary-thebook.org/news/files/122e81c168eccc9f5b1fa379bdf9cac6-4.html#unique-entry-id-4Australian On Line Opinion

By Jane Gray Morrison and Michael Tobias

Whether in orangutans, lambs or human children, innocence conjures a call to the heart; one that, in the musings of the Prophet Isaiah, evokes a vision of the wolf, lamb, leopard and goat nestled together in harmony. Such hints of vestigial Eden present tantalising scenarios not entirely out of kilter with the best laid plan of conservation, namely, the protection of large ecosystems with their intact assemblages of plants and animals.

This was the dream of Abraham Lincoln, who not only brought the nation together, but sought to include within that community protected natural areas beginning with his gift to the nation of the Mariposa Big Tree Grove of Giant Sequoias and Yosemite Valley on June 30, 1864. This action led to the creation of the national park system which some consider to be the best idea America ever devised.

]]>media@dancingstarfoundation.orgNews Coverage2008-07-10T10:35:47-07:00http://sanctuary-thebook.org/news/files/1fb04c5ece2802db07580657ead9c653-3.html#unique-entry-id-3http://sanctuary-thebook.org/news/files/1fb04c5ece2802db07580657ead9c653-3.html#unique-entry-id-3Daily Breeze

by Kristin S. Agostini

For three years, Michael Tobias traveled the globe documenting the daunting efforts under way to protect threatened plants and wildlife.

He's followed a stewardship program to protect an endangered parrot species in New Zealand and the native plantings occurring on Easter Island, once home to rich palm forests before humans ripped them from the landscape.

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According to Michael Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison, protecting innocence is perhaps humanity’s deepest procreative instinct, and celebrating nature our highest calling. In SANCTUARY: Global Oases of Innocence (Council Oak/On-Sale Date: September 1, 2008/978-1-57178-214-4/$60.00), Tobias and Morrison profile globally significant sanctuaries at the forefront of an emerging multinational movement to sanctify nature and save her last pristine places–a vital step toward the total renewal of the biosphere.

]]>media@dancingstarfoundation.orgMedia2008-05-10T02:45:50-07:00http://sanctuary-thebook.org/news/files/6b5bb22fe4455c2528ed67c17d45216f-1.html#unique-entry-id-1http://sanctuary-thebook.org/news/files/6b5bb22fe4455c2528ed67c17d45216f-1.html#unique-entry-id-1Reviewed by Michael Pastore

Ralph Waldo Emerson drew his personal and literary power from a deep contact with the natural world. In a journal entry written in April in the year 1840, Emerson wrote:

"As I sat on the back of the Drop or God's pond ... I said to my companion I declare this world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists."

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