" Meander is written in captivating personal prose by a mature activist, river scientist, and storyteller. "Making room for rivers-and for a lot of other things we've tried to improve and accelerate and modernize-is a good rallying cry for our beleaguered planet this book will cheer you, and spur you on!" - Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? "Among the few individuals left from the golden era of modern-day environmentalism to write about book about the need to protect and preserve our Great Lakes rivers, who better to do it than Margaret Wooster." - Niagara At Large "Wooster offers a voice of hope, chronicling successes in improving a local watershed while offering suggestions applicable to readers across a much wider geography." - CHOICE
Wooster leaves us with the idea that it is up to us, the people who live along these flows and in their watersheds, to learn as much as we can about these connections and to use our local authorities to "make room for rivers" and protect our planet's circulatory system for future generations. While our management policies often sever them, these connections are key to Buffalo Creek and Great Lakes recovery and resilience. The ecosystem value of physical integrity-or connectivity between upstream and down, surface flow to aquifer, river to land was never fully unpacked. Wooster explores how, on the Niagara Frontier especially, traditional ecological knowledge and Indigenous values were suppressed by colonial rules of settlement. She then turns to Buffalo Creek to teach us how the Great Lakes work-from a "hill made of water" to a cut-off oxbow to a buried delta transitioning from two centuries of industrialization. Drawing on her own experience as a watershed planner, teacher, and Great Lakes activist, Margaret Wooster describes the language, history, and failures of many of our water management policies. However, the vetiver and milky sandalwood which appears much later, give the perfume a sweet/savory taste that is to die for.Meander tells the story of the Great Lakes region's experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water. I like the way incense whirl in and out the whole combination. The iris pops up a bit later, pairs with carrot seeds, bony, dry vetiver, and a soft and controlled touch of olibanum. Nonchalantly, the fragrance opens with a well-shaken combination of rooty carrot seeds, meadow-like floralcy, merged with a soft touch of olibanum. The fragrance is majorly based on carrot seed, black pepper, vetiver, iris, rose, sandalwood, and, as mandatory of an Amouage fragrance, olibanum. Meander delineates that inexpressible olfactory experience.
The sound of rough grass under my worn leather boots matches the smell of decay and mushrooms in the trunk of fallen trees that became victims of the wrath of thunder several years ago, and the scent of tiny wild violets and the smell of alfalfa flowers. I used to hike in the forest to gather wood for the fireplace. It was aimless days in a cold mountain with consistent massive thick fog which you can’t see even a meter ahead. I was in a self-willed remoteness from everyone and everywhere in my bygone villa on top of mountains where pure forests and pure tranquility are.
Amouage’s new masculine fragrance Meander surprisingly matches a unique olfactory experience I had last spring during those gloomy days of lockdown.
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