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Diverse essayists explore how practicing attentive natural history remains an essential pathway to sanity and health, for individuals and societies.
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14 November 2017

"A beautiful collaboration that brings together diverse perspectives…a common passion and sense of beauty unites the book and transcends any expectations."
—BOOKLIST
A diverse array of people—psychologists and poets, biologists and artists, a Buddhist teacher and a rock musician—share personal stories that reveal a common theme: when we pay conscious, careful attention to our wider world, we strengthen our core humanity. This practice of natural history leads to greater physical, psychological, and social health for individuals and communities. Nature, Love, Medicine features writers with varied backgrounds and talents. Notable contributors range from conservationist and author Brooke Williams and award–winning author Elisabeth Tova Bailey to Vietnamese Buddhist monk and teacher Thich Nhat Hanh and internationally known poet Jane Hirshfield.
THOMAS LOWE FLEISCHNER, editor of Nature, Love, Medicine, is a naturalist and conservation biologist, and founding director of the Natural History Institute at Prescott College, where he has taught interdisciplinary environmental studies for almost three decades. He edited The Way of Natural History and authored Singing Stone: A Natural History of the Escalante Canyons and Desert Wetlands.
—BOOKLIST
A diverse array of people—psychologists and poets, biologists and artists, a Buddhist teacher and a rock musician—share personal stories that reveal a common theme: when we pay conscious, careful attention to our wider world, we strengthen our core humanity. This practice of natural history leads to greater physical, psychological, and social health for individuals and communities. Nature, Love, Medicine features writers with varied backgrounds and talents. Notable contributors range from conservationist and author Brooke Williams and award–winning author Elisabeth Tova Bailey to Vietnamese Buddhist monk and teacher Thich Nhat Hanh and internationally known poet Jane Hirshfield.
THOMAS LOWE FLEISCHNER, editor of Nature, Love, Medicine, is a naturalist and conservation biologist, and founding director of the Natural History Institute at Prescott College, where he has taught interdisciplinary environmental studies for almost three decades. He edited The Way of Natural History and authored Singing Stone: A Natural History of the Escalante Canyons and Desert Wetlands.
Price: $18.95
Pages: 270
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Imprint: Torrey House Press
Publication Date:
14 November 2017
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.75 in
ISBN: 9781937226770
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
NATURE / Essays, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth, SCIENCE / Natural History, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Healing / General
"Touching upon growing fields such as ecotherapy, ecospirituality, and sustainability, these essays are for anyone interested in learning how nature can rejuvenate the self and why we should take care to protect the earth."
—LIBRARY JOURNAL
"A beautiful collaboration that brings together diverse perspectives…While each offering is unique and each voice tells a specific story, a common passion and sense of beauty unites the book and transcends any expectations. Thought provoking and insightful."
—BOOKLIST
"Throughout this illuminating collection, a diverse array of people share personal stories that reveal a common theme: when we pay conscious, careful attention to our wider world, we strengthen our core humanity."
—FOREWORD REVIEWS
"In Nature, Love, Medicine, nearly two dozen writers, poets, scientists, and healers reflect on what loving and needing nature really means to them. Read it, and you'll be stirred to ask the same of your own reflection—in the clearest, quietest pool you can find."
—ALAN WEISMAN, author of The World Without Us
"A sigh of relief, a blessing from some of the continent's most beautiful writers, a cooling breeze for an overheated time—Tom Fleischner's new anthology is a pleasure, start to finish."
—KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE, author of Piano Tide
—LIBRARY JOURNAL
"A beautiful collaboration that brings together diverse perspectives…While each offering is unique and each voice tells a specific story, a common passion and sense of beauty unites the book and transcends any expectations. Thought provoking and insightful."
—BOOKLIST
"Throughout this illuminating collection, a diverse array of people share personal stories that reveal a common theme: when we pay conscious, careful attention to our wider world, we strengthen our core humanity."
—FOREWORD REVIEWS
"In Nature, Love, Medicine, nearly two dozen writers, poets, scientists, and healers reflect on what loving and needing nature really means to them. Read it, and you'll be stirred to ask the same of your own reflection—in the clearest, quietest pool you can find."
—ALAN WEISMAN, author of The World Without Us
"A sigh of relief, a blessing from some of the continent's most beautiful writers, a cooling breeze for an overheated time—Tom Fleischner's new anthology is a pleasure, start to finish."
—KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE, author of Piano Tide
THOMAS LOWE FLEISCHNER, editor of Nature, Love, Medicine, is a naturalist and conservation biologist, and founding director of the Natural History Institute at Prescott College, where he has taught interdisciplinary environmental studies for almost three decades. He edited The Way of Natural History and authored Singing Stone: A Natural History of the Escalante Canyons and Desert Wetlands, as well as numerous professional articles.
JANE HIRSHFIELD
The Gods Are Not Large
THOMAS LOWE FLEISCHNER
Our Deepest Affinity
GARY PAUL NABHAN
The Silence of the Forest As Our Lover
NALINI NADKARNI
Branching Out
ALBERTO BURQUEZ
Plants, Health, and People of the Forbidden Mountains
GWEN ANNETTE HEISTAND
Sunday School
BROOKE WILLIAMS
Flirting Dragonflies
STEPHEN TRIMBLE
The Blue Gate
LAURA SEWALL
New Words, Lost Words, and Terms of Endearment
EDIE DILLON
Serendipity, Sculpture, and Story
SARAH JUNIPER RABKIN
Spark and Fire
MITCHELL THOMASHOW
Nature. Love. Medicine. Healing. Reciprocity. Generosity.
ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING
City of Loves
JUDITH LYDEAMORE
The Path of Healing
ELISABETH TOVA BAILEY
Biophilia At My Bedside
SAUL WEISBERG
Murtle Lake Rx: A Dose of Wind and Rain
PABLO DEUSTUA JOCHAMOWITZ
Meeting the Gray Fox
PETER H. KAHN, JR.
Environmental Generational Amnesia
LAURET SAVOY
Sense of Place Before and After Race
JANA RICHMAN
Dark Love
MELANIE BISHOP
In the Form of Birds
ROBIN WALL KIMMERER
Heal–All
THICH NHAT HANH
Falling in Love With the Earth
JANE HIRSHFIELD
Maple
Contributors
Acknowledgements and Permissions
The Gods Are Not Large
THOMAS LOWE FLEISCHNER
Our Deepest Affinity
GARY PAUL NABHAN
The Silence of the Forest As Our Lover
NALINI NADKARNI
Branching Out
ALBERTO BURQUEZ
Plants, Health, and People of the Forbidden Mountains
GWEN ANNETTE HEISTAND
Sunday School
BROOKE WILLIAMS
Flirting Dragonflies
STEPHEN TRIMBLE
The Blue Gate
LAURA SEWALL
New Words, Lost Words, and Terms of Endearment
EDIE DILLON
Serendipity, Sculpture, and Story
SARAH JUNIPER RABKIN
Spark and Fire
MITCHELL THOMASHOW
Nature. Love. Medicine. Healing. Reciprocity. Generosity.
ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING
City of Loves
JUDITH LYDEAMORE
The Path of Healing
ELISABETH TOVA BAILEY
Biophilia At My Bedside
SAUL WEISBERG
Murtle Lake Rx: A Dose of Wind and Rain
PABLO DEUSTUA JOCHAMOWITZ
Meeting the Gray Fox
PETER H. KAHN, JR.
Environmental Generational Amnesia
LAURET SAVOY
Sense of Place Before and After Race
JANA RICHMAN
Dark Love
MELANIE BISHOP
In the Form of Birds
ROBIN WALL KIMMERER
Heal–All
THICH NHAT HANH
Falling in Love With the Earth
JANE HIRSHFIELD
Maple
Contributors
Acknowledgements and Permissions