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Issue 2

Perspectives in Ecology, Spirituality and Education
Autumn 2006

Earthsong Cover Feature Article: Wallaby’s Gaze - Wendy Chew

Recently I encountered an eloquent messenger from the wild. Driving home on a late August afternoon, I saw a swamp wallaby on the embankment ahead, very close to the road. These shy forest creatures usually rush away at the approach of a human, and are especially wary of cars.

But this wallaby just stood there staring intently at me as I drove slowly past. So compelling was her gaze that twenty metres past her I stopped and reversed the car until I was face to face with her — me leaning out of my car window, she on the embankment, with only a metre and a half between us...

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Contents - Issue 4

Features

Wallaby’s Gaze - Wendy Chew

Wendy Chew

Celebration of Place

Myara Permaculture

Pat Dare

Education

Ecoliteracy

Caroline Smith

Earth Visionary

Judith Wright

Veronica Brady

Science

Gene Technology

Gill Baker

Reclaiming the connections

Colin Hocking

Opinion

Nature: a source of revelation

Paul Corkeron

Economics v Ecology

Alan Baker

Personal Commitment

Lake Cowal

Eleanor Gilbert

Kangaroos

Carol McDonough

Interview

Conversation with Sean McDonagh

 

Poetry and Reflections

The Tunnel

Mary Tehan

An Australian Lyric

Fina Woollcombe

Freezing Rosella

 

Schools

Sustainable Schooling

 

Environmental responsibility rewarded

 

Reviews

The Universe Series

Jenny Kingston

PaGain Cosmology

Veronica B

South of My Days

Noelene Kelly

Flight to a floating horizon

Naomi Turner