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Gary Paul Nabhan
"Gary Nabhan's interests and insights are as diverse as the wild seeds he gathers. Not only does he write beautifully about what he knows, he also goes out into the fields of native peoples collecting and conserving indigenous seeds, returning them to communities from which they have been lost. In words and actions, Nabhan aims to preserve no less than the 'remaining riches of the living world' and in so doing, is a candidate for sainthood." --Gretel Ehrlich.
Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing for his first book, Gathering the Desert, Gary Paul Nabhan is a MacArthur Fellow, co-founder of Native Seeds/SEARCH, science advisor at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and board member of the Seed Savers Exchange. He was the first director of the Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University, and initiated the Traditional Native American Farmers' Association. He has published a number of books and articles on ethnobotany, nutrition, and plant conservation. His books include:
- Why Some Like it Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity, 2004
- Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation 1989, reissued 2002
- The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country 1982, reissued 2002
- The Forgotten Pollinators with Stephen L. Buchmann, 1996
- Singing the Turtles to Sea: The Comcaac (Seri) Art and Science of Reptiles, 2003
- Coming Home to Eat: The Sensual Pleasures and Global Politics of Local Foods, 2001
- Cultures of Habitat: On Nature, Culture, and Story, 1997
- The Geography of Childhood with Stephen Trimble, 1994
- Gathering the Desert, 1987
- Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves: An American Naturalist in Italy, 1993