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Issue 2

Perspectives in Ecology, Spirituality and Education
Autumn 2005

Earthsong CoverFeature Article: Land's Edge - Tim Winton

Just below me sharks lunge and burrow into a wall of quivering flesh and the sea is pretty with blood. A pall of gulls hangs above the water. A winch grinds into gear. I am fourteen years old and a busload of other fourteen-year-olds clamours around me as the sperm whale is winched slowly onto the flensing deck at Frenchman Bay. As it comes up, a single bronze whaler, unable to leave off gnashing, is dragged onto the deck snout-deep in blubber. It twists its head, hacking and wolfing, until it loses hold and rolls down the slick wood into the water...

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Contents - Issue 2

Feature Writer

Land's Edge

Tim Winton

Interview

Ian Stapleton interviewed by Gill Baker

Celebration of Place

Four Winds

Mary Tinney

Science

The Flinders Ranges

Peter Fawkner

Poetry

Flowering Eucalypt in Autumn

Les Murray

Bumping into God

Avril Dover

Bridgewater Bay

E.A. Gleeson

Personal Commitment

A Love Affair with the Bay

Rosemary Baillie

Education

Bringing Forth New Worlds

Jane Scott

Education for a Sustainable Future

Galen College

Learning and Teaching for Peace And Ecology: St Mel's

Trish Hindmarsh

Personal Commitment

Preserving Memories

Catherine James

Opinion

Ecology and Spirituality

Trevor Parton

Earth Visionary

David Holmgren

Caroline Smith

Personal Reflection

Where have all the shells gone?

Reba Woodwiss

Flinders Ranges Retreat

Sheila Quonoey

Launch of The Gift of Water

Cecilia Merrigan

Book Reviews

Our Ecological Footprint

Kevin Atton

Bypass: the story of a road

Naomi Turner

A Place on Earth

Ruth Harrison