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Reconciling the Natural World & Human Choices:Ten Sites for Reflection
An early view of Candler Library shows a treeless Quadrangle; today's view on the right. This place, the Emory University campus, is work site and home for students, faculty, employees, and neighbors. Prior to urban development, it was a richly diverse landscape of farmland and forest. In this millennial year, as the Atlanta region awakens to the damaging effects of rapid growth on our quality of life, we embrace the challenge of incorporating environmental awareness into our daily lives. Through this walk, you may explore some remnants of the forested natural community. In the tour, you will see ways we seek to reconcile our urban way of life and academic mission with the challenge of preserving and restoring that community. Join with us as we learn new dimensions of Emory's landscape and history. Help us to preserve for future generations what we have inherited from the past. Enjoy your walk! You may begin your walking tour at any site, but the first marker is located behind the Carlos Museum (near the intersection of Fishburne Drive and Mizell Drive) in the area between the Rich Building and Glenn Memorial Church. The complete tour takes about two hours, but if you wish, you can visit sites numbered 1-4 in one on-campus loop, and make sites 5-9 into a second loop along Clifton Road. There are places to eat between the two loops, if you want to take a break. We hope this walking tour enhances our ability to use this campus place as an opportunity to learn about environmental reconciliation in ways that we can take with us, as we move on to other work sites and other homeplaces, wherever they may be. The Reconciliation Year walking tour committee: Peggy Barlett, Tim Bryson, William Buzbee, Eloise Carter, JoAn Chace, Howard Frumkin, James Johnson, William Murdy, John Wegner. Want to download a printed copy of this brochure? You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader. It's free, and you may download it here. Reconciling the Natural World & Human Choices: Ten Sites for Reflection walking tour brochure. |
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