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Annie Dillard · 76 pages
Learning to Walk in the Dark
Barbara Brown Taylor · 208 pages
My Story as told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-watchings, Fish-stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark
David James Duncan · 304 pages
"In his own words, David James Duncan was "struck by a boyhood suspicion that rivers and mountains are myself turned inside out. I'd heard at church that the kingdom of heaven is within us and thought, Yeah, sure. But the first time I walked up a trout stream, fly rod in hand, I didn't feel I was 'outside' at all: I was traveling further and further in." An estimated three thousand river walks la
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson · 78 pages
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and animals.
Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
Mary Oliver · 101 pages
A collection of seventeen essays and ten poems.
This is It & Other Essays on Zen & Spiritual Experience
Alan W. Watts · 158 pages
The Witch of the Forest's Guide to Earth Magick: Ground yourself with magick. Connect with the seasons in your life & in nature
Lindsay Squire · 176 pages
Walden and Other Writings
Henry David Thoreau · 584 pages
In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise
George Prochnik · 342 pages
More than money, power, and even happiness, silence has become the most precious--and dwindling--commodity of our modern world. Between iPods, music-blasting restaurants, earsplitting sports stadiums, and endless air and road traffic, the place for quiet in our lives grows smaller by the day. In Pursuit of Silence gives context to our increasingly desperate sense that noise pollution is, in a ve
Commentaries on Living 1
Jiddu Krishnamurti · 254 pages
Cassandra Eason's Complete Book of Natural Magic
Cassandra Eason · 650 pages
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Jon Krakauer · 191 pages
Krakauer takes the reader to wonderful, awful peaks like Denali, the Eiger, Devil's Thumb, K-2 and Everest.
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Terry Tempest Williams · 232 pages
In fifty-four chapters that unfold like a series of yoga poses, each with its own logic and beauty, Williams (beloved author of "Refuge") creates a lyrical and caring meditation of the mystery of her mother's journals .. and what it means to have a voice beyond a selfless existence informed by children and a husband.
If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska
Heather Lende · 288 pages
Tiny Haines, Alaska, ninety miles north of Juneau, is accessible mainly by water or air—and only when the weather is good. There’s no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace; and funerals are community affairs. As both obituary writer and social columnist for the local newspaper, Heather Lende knows better than anyone the goings-on in this breathtakingly beautiful pla
Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
Anne Lamott · 112 pages
"I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe, over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple" -- Cover verso. Lamott has coalesced everything she knows about prayer to three simple fundamentals. Asking for assistance from a higher power, appreciating what we have that is good, and feeling awe at the world around us-- that can
The Night Country: Reflections of a Bone-Hunting Man
Loren Eiseley
The John McPhee Reader
John McPhee · 385 pages
In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, "A Sense of Where You Are"; a decade later, he had published eleven others. This reader is comprised of selections from those first twelve books.
Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings
Henry David Thoreau, William Rossi · 672 pages
In addition to the texts of 'Walden' and 'Civil Disobedience', this revised and expanded 'Norton Critical Edition' reprints the increasingly important works 'Slavery in Massachusetts', 'Walking' and 'Wild Apples'. All texts are accompanied by annotations.
Things That Are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals
Amy Leach · 208 pages
Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life
Karen Maezen Miller · 180 pages
Miller uses daily household chores, laundry, kitchen, yard, to demonstrate timeless Buddhist principles. The skillful weaving of personal anecdotes, a few Zen terms, and acute insights sometimes addressing the reader directly, distinguish this book from others in the genre. Miller, a Zen priest and student of the late Maezumi Roshi, argues for the faultless wisdom of following instructions when go
Ostara: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for the Spring Equinox (Llewellyn's Sabbat Essentials Book 1)
Llewellyn Publications · 155 pages
The Tao of Pooh
Benjamin Hoff · 158 pages
The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh!?! Yes, Winnie-the-Pooh has a certain Way about him, a way of doing things that has made him the world's most beloved bear. In these pages Benjamin Hoff shows that Pooh's Way is amazingly consistent with the principles of living envisioned long ago by the Chinese founders of Taoism. The author's explanation of Taoism is through Pooh, and Poo