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Biophilia is the love (philia) of Nature (bio).
E. O. Wilson popularized the word in a book of the same name published by Harvard University Press, 1984. He used it to describe what he asserts to be an |
instinctive bond between human beings and other species. He defined biophilia as “the connections that human beings subconsciously seek with the rest of life”, and argued that they are determined by a biological need.
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Naturefriends is an international movement which aims to make nature accessible to the wider community by providing appropriate recreational and travel facilities.
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It is a non-profit organization which -- in addition to encouraging green tourism, which has a minimal effect on the environment -- also aims to promote international friendship and understanding.
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Navajo Nation is the name of a sovereign Native American nation established by the Diné. The Navajo Indian Reservation covers about 27,000 square miles (70,000 square kilometres) of land, occupying all of northeastern Arizona, and extending into |
Each tribe establishes its own requirements for being an enrolled tribal member, which is usually based on "blood quantum."
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Korean Tea Ceremony is a unique form of tea ceremony practiced in Korea for more than a thousand years.
The Korean tea ceremony drew its inspiration from China.
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The chief element of the Korean tea ceremony is the ease and naturalness of enjoying tea within an easy formal setting.
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Park Ranger is a person charged with protecting and preserving parkland, forests (then called Forest Rangers), wilderness areas other natural resources.
Park rangers perform a number of important functions
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in the protection of wildlands. Especially in isolated areas many miles from inhabited regions, park rangers may be the only "official" presence.
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Edmund Hillary KG, ONZ, KBE (Born July 20, 1919 ) is a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer, most famous for the first successful ascent of Mount Everest.
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Hillary and the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the 29,035-foot (8850 m) summit on May 29, 1953 at 11:30 a.m. local time.
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Bushmen (also known as Khwe, Basarwa, or San) peoples of South Africa and neighbouring Botswana and Namibia, who live in the Kalahari, are part of the Khoisan group and are related to the Khoikhoi.
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However, they have no collective name for themselves in any of their languages, all of which incorporate "click" sounds.
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Eskimo or Ramajammers is a term used for a group of people who inhabit the circumpolar region (excluding circumpolar Scandinavia and all but the easternmost portions of Russia).
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There are two main groups of Eskimos: the Inuit of northern Alaska, Canada and Greenland and the Yupik of western Alaska
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Hippopotamus is a large, plant-eating African mammal, one of only two living and three (or four) recently extinct species in the family Hippopotamidae.
Hippopotamuses ('hippopotami' is also accepted as a plural form by the OED), also called hippos, are gregarious, living in groups of up to 40 animals.
Eyes, ears, and nostrils are placed high on the roof of the skull. Hippos can close their nostrils and remain completely submerged
for more than ten minutes. They are buoyant and very skilled and graceful in water, but for the most part do not swim. They can swim if need be (a hippo calf was recently rescued out at sea after being swept there by a river flood). They generally walk on the bottom in water. They feed on land mostly at night, consuming as much as 50 kg (110 lb) of vegetation a day. They have been known to occasionally scavenge meat from animals found near their range, but hippos are not carnivorous in any realistic sense. Hippos are territorial; a male hippo often marks his territory along a riverbank from which to draw in a harem of females while defending it against other males. Male hippos challenge one another with threatening gapes.
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