Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her"A West Coast feminist and poet draws from myth, legend, history, religion, sociology, science, and other sources to trace the evolution of attitudes toward and perceptions of women and nature."--Goodreads website. |
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Page 115
... sound . It is said that there are vibrations too rapid for the human ear and vibrations too slow , that vibrations of sound increase in warmer or thicker media , that the struc- ture of the inner ear increases or decreases the frequency ...
... sound . It is said that there are vibrations too rapid for the human ear and vibrations too slow , that vibrations of sound increase in warmer or thicker media , that the struc- ture of the inner ear increases or decreases the frequency ...
Page 116
... sound can exist in an unthinking substance , in the violin , or the wood of the violin . And since all evidence for ... sounds violent to her . Her body flinches . She holds back the words she was going to speak . She feels a weight ...
... sound can exist in an unthinking substance , in the violin , or the wood of the violin . And since all evidence for ... sounds violent to her . Her body flinches . She holds back the words she was going to speak . She feels a weight ...
Page 202
... Sound only a milder form of the shock waves made by explosions , by blasts . why these stories had been kept from us Sound one of the ways we know how many stories in which concentrated energy are in this silence diffuses itself about ...
... Sound only a milder form of the shock waves made by explosions , by blasts . why these stories had been kept from us Sound one of the ways we know how many stories in which concentrated energy are in this silence diffuses itself about ...
Contents
MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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