Product Details

• Actors: Luci Tapahonso, Pattiann Rogers, John Daniel, Garrett Hongo, William Kittredge
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: July 1, 1996
• Run Time: 57 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0963867954
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #286,213 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

How do we return to the sacred? How do we acknowledge it? For me, it's being out in the land. You are simply in that presence-in the calmness of that moment of walking on redrock, of hand on stone, of hearing the sound of raven, of feeling the wind across your face. It's not something that one has to search for. One is simply standing in the center of it. Terry Tempest Williams. It's my very strong feeling that one of the hopes of the world is going to have to be putting our faith in the land and saying regardless of race, regardless of religion, regardless of various ethnic backgrounds, if we can all look to the land together with a heart to help it and a heart to respect it, then we can hope to begin to talk about other things after that. Gary Snyder. I believe places are sacred because they are invested with story and with connection and not because they're necessarily stunningly gorgeous or that they hold great wealth or that God pointed them out. I believe that we make places sacred because of how we have lived in them and how we are connected to them. Annick Smith.

Product Description

Based on interviews with 14 outstanding writers of prose and poetry, all of whom have a deep and abiding love of nature and wilderness. This is not a program where the authors read their material. In Art of the Wild they talk about their philosophy, or how they became interested in the natural world, or what motivated them to want to "give back to the Earth and all the human and non-human life that inhabits it." Their stories are fascinating and memorable. To go along with the interviews are stunning scenes of nature and wilderness and, to accompany that beauty, Art of the Wild features the music of Paul Lloyd Warner.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Powerful words, June 25, 2000

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Charles Vane (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Art of the Wild [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a very powerful collection of interviews about nature and man's troubled relationship with the earth, by some of the best natural history writers in the business. Taken from the Art of the Wild writing workshops in Northern California, the pieces are integrated with great music and images to truly evoke the philosophy of these writers. While some of the writers skirt a little too close to new age mysticism, they all share a deep love of the natural world. A great video not only for the natural history reader, but also for the more casual nature lover who might be looking for a different voice or perspective.

4.0 out of 5 stars Helpful to a teacher, March 25, 2005

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greenworlder (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Art of the Wild [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I have found this film useful in my Literature and the Environment course. Many of the contemporary writers we read in my college-level course are shown discussing their work and philosophies. The film provides a good introduction to the important and popular literary genre of Nature Writing.