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Carl’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Carl’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Carl Safina
Goodreads Author
Born
in Brooklyn, NY, The United States
May 23, 1955
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May 2010
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https://www.goodreads.com/carl_safina
On Jonathan Franzen’s latest climate change piece in the New Yorker (and its pushback)
Polar bear, Svalbard, Norway. Photo: Carl SafinaOn September 8, the New Yorker published an article by Jonathan Franzen titled, “What if we stopped pretending?” By September 11, various instant criticisms and rebuttals had been published including a Scientific American piece by Columbia University climate scientist Dr. Kate Marvel, titled, “Shut up, Franzen.”
Basically, Franzen believes there is al
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Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
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2015
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5 editions
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Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are
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2020
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30 editions
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Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas
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1998
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11 editions
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Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur
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2006
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14 editions
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Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
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2023
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8 editions
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The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
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2011
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12 editions
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Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival
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2002
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11 editions
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A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout
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2011
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12 editions
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Owls in Our Yard!: The Story of Alfie
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2024
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Beyond Words: What Wolves and Dogs Think and Feel
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2020
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3 editions
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Carl Safina
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| I'm the author. My 5 stars are for Alfie herself. She has been free-living since 2019 and will be 7 years old in May 2025. She has raised 15 wild young ones with two wild mates. Some reader-reviewers have thought that the manner of Alfie's near-death ...more | |
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| I'm the author. My 5 stars are for Alfie herself. Readers might like to know that she has been free-living since 2019 and will be 7 years old in May 2025. With two wild mates she has raised 15 wild young owls. Despite her near-death rescue and her re ...more | |
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Carl Safina
rated a book it was amazing
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| I'm the author. My 5 stars are for Alfie herself. She has been free-living since 2019 and will be 7 years old in May 2025. She has raised 15 wild young ones with two wild mates. Some reader-reviewers have thought that the manner of Alfie's near-death ...more | |
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Carl Safina
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| I was rather amazed at the wide swath of society that Heacox manages to tap in building his characters. None of them are cardboard cutouts. All are so human and so fuzzy around the edges that they really come alive in the pages. You feel you know the ...more | |
“Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make one quest: liberty and justice for all. Whether one's special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.”
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
“The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for me but what is best. Not what is right for me but what is right. Not how much can we take? but How much ought we leave? and how much might we give? Not what is easy but what is worthy. Not what is practical but what is moral.”
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
“People have been on earth in our present form for only about 100,000 years, and in so many ways we’re still ironing out our kinks. These turtles we’ve been traveling with, they outrank us in longevity, having earned three more zeros than we. They’ve got one hundred million years of success on their resume, and they’ve learned something about how to survive in the world. And this, I think, is part of it: they have settled upon peaceful career paths, with a stable rhythm. If humans could survive another one hundred million years, I expect we would no longer find ourselves riding bulls. It’s not so much that I think animals have rights; it’s more that I believe humans have hearts and minds- though I’ve yet to see consistent, convincing proof of either. Turtles may seem to lack sense, but they don’t do senseless things. They’re not terribly energetic, yet they do not waste energy… turtles cannot consider what might happen yet nothing turtles do threatens anyone’s future. Turtles don’t think about the next generation, but they risk and provide all they can to ensure that there will be one. Meanwhile, we profess to love our own offspring above all else, yet above all else it is they from whom we daily steal. We cannot learn to be more like turtles, but from turtles we could learn to be more human. That is the wisdom carried within one hundred million years of survival. What turtles could learn from us, I can’t quite imagine.”
― Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur
― Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur
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“Another big group of dolphins had just surfaced alongside our moving vessel—leaping and splashing and calling mysteriously back and forth in their squeally, whistly way, with many babies swift alongside their mothers. And this time, confined to just the surface of such deep and lovely lives, I was becoming unsatisfied. I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so—close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that was forbidden fruit: Who are you? Science usually steers firmly from questions about the inner lives of animals. Surely they have inner lives of some sort. But like a child who is admonished that what they really want to ask is impolite, a young scientist is taught that the animal mind—if there is such—is unknowable. Permissible questions are “it” questions: where it lives; what it eats; what it does when danger threatens; how it breeds. But always forbidden—always forbidden—is the one question that might open the door: “Who?” — Carl Safina”
― Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
― Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
“We look at the world through our own eyes, naturally. But by looking from the inside out, we see an inside-out world. This book takes the perspective of the world outside us—a world in which humans are not the measure of all things, a human race among other races. ...In our estrangement from nature we have severed our sense of the community of life and lost touch with the experience of other animals. ...understanding the human animal becomes easier in context, seeing our human thread woven into the living web among the strands of so many others.”
― Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
― Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
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