Nature, Love, Medicine - by Thomas Lowe Fleischner (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Diverse essayists explore how practicing attentive natural history remains an essential pathway to sanity and health, for individuals and societies.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A beautiful collaboration that brings together diverse perspectives...a common passion and sense of beauty unites the book and transcends any expectations. <br>--<i>BOOKLIST</i> <p/>A diverse array of people--psychologists and poets, biologists and artists, a Buddhist teacher and a rock musician--</b>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. <i>Nature, Love, Medicine</i> 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. <p/><b>THOMAS LOWE FLEISCHNER</b>, editor of <i>Nature, Love, Medicine</i>, 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 <i>The Way of Natural History</i> and authored <i>Singing Stone: A Natural History of the Escalante Canyons</i> and <i>Desert Wetlands</i>.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>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. <br>--<b><i>LIBRARY JOURNAL</b></i> <p/>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. <br>--<b><i>BOOKLIST</b></i> <p/>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. <br>--<b><i>FOREWORD REVIEWS</b></i> <p/>In <i>Nature, Love, Medicine</i>, 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. <br>--<b>ALAN WEISMAN</b>, author of <i>The World Without Us</i> <p/>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. <br>--<b>KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE</b>, author of <i>Piano Tide</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>THOMAS LOWE FLEISCHNER</b>, editor of <i>Nature, Love, Medicine</i>, 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 <i>The Way of Natural History</i> and authored <i>Singing Stone: A Natural History of the Escalante Canyons</i> and <i>Desert Wetlands</i>.
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