The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods.Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods by Julia Butterfly/Hill HarperSanFrancisco. 256 pages. $25.00. This book works best as the autobiography of a directionless young woman who accepted a mission and saw it through despite harrowing hardships. A preacher's daughter, Hill was not a forest activist before she took up the fight to save Luna, an ancient-growth redwood in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern : For two years, she engaged in civil disobedience civil disobedience, refusal to obey a law or follow a policy believed to be unjust. Practitioners of civil disobediance basing their actions on moral right and usually employ the nonviolent technique of passive resistance in order to bring wider attention to the by tree-sitting Luna. Her discussion of forest preservation issues is humane humane pertaining to the avoidance of infliction of pain, discomfort and harassment; used especially with regard to animals. humane considerations , unaffected, yet somewhat superficial. She neither harangues nor sermonizes, but some people might find her frequent references to prayer and spirituality syrupy. Hill's story of how she ended up in the tree in the first place is a captivating cap·ti·vate tr.v. cap·ti·vat·ed, cap·ti·vat·ing, cap·ti·vates 1. To attract and hold by charm, beauty, or excellence. See Synonyms at charm. 2. Archaic To capture. one, as is her account of how she coped with the hardball hard·ball n. 1. Baseball. 2. Informal The use of any means, however ruthless, to attain an objective. hardball Noun US & Canad 1. capitalists running PacificLumber/Maaxam, contended with the media celebrity factory, kept other activists with their own political agendas at bay, and endured a not-always bucolic environment. Luna loses steam toward the finish because Hill's description of the negotiations that ended her action lacks dramatic punch. Still, it's a good read about activism as a transformative experience. |
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