CONTACT EMAIL: [email protected] A Coastal Image of “Turakina” – a painting by Bob Kerr
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David has given expression to the many of the voices of our NZ rivers, across the issues of history, ecology, hydrology and water quality issues. His discussion of the importance of our Rivers are intrinsic to the New Zealand psyche as well as its dynamic landscape. Celebrating, promoting and protecting them go hand-in-hand.
His writing shows how rivers represent constancy, connect us to a Polynesian and a European past and to the future. Rivers remind us that slow-time, long-term decisions must be given space in our deliberations about whether and how we engage with nature and use recreationally. We cannot take our rivers for granted as they sustain life and our economic well-being. Rivers provide inspiration and contemplation; they also reflect liberties taken, assumptions made. Inscribed in the memory of water too can be the expression of collective wisdom - of precaution and care and kaitiakitanga that will best serve both land and people. The decisions we each make, in a myriad of ways in regard to rivers, are a function of the quality not only of our environment but also the equally precious and fragile democracy we inhabit. |
David's work reflect a fascination with freshwater,
environmental history and the relationship between nature and culture. His books include:
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