Island Press, Washington, D.C. 234 pp.
Dictionaries define requiem as a hymn, composition, or service for the dead.
So the title of this book suggests that nature is already deceased. Not entirely, but in his Requiem for Nature, Terbourgh reveals a deep pessimism about our ability to prevent the extinction of nature. He also reveals his outrage at this state of affairs. His anger has deep roots. Growing up in northern Virginia in the boom years after World War II, he saw the forests and fields he so joyfully explored disappear before his eyes, turned into subdivisions and shopping centers.