"The Sacred Earth" is a treasury of quotations that celebrates our spiritual bond with nature--presented in a gift book format. This collection includes works by Peter Matthiessen, Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, and many others.
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"This book is no substitute for being outside," writes the noted environmental activist David Brower in his foreword to this anthology of inspirational nature writing. For those who happen to be stuck indoors, this slender volume, composed of short prose excerpts from longer literary works, makes for a nicely vicarious experience of the wild. Jason Gardner, an environmental journalist and editor, takes the view that the natural world is sacred, whence his emphasis on the spiritual side of nature writing. The writings he has assembled reinforce that belief, touching on the beauty, strangeness, and life-changing qualities of wild places. Gardner draws on such works as Peter Matthiessen's quest-for-the-soul epic The Snow Leopard, Edward Abbey's back-to-the-land manifesto Desert Solitaire, Gary Snyder's self-exploratory treatise The Practice of the Wild, and Terry Tempest Williams's religiously charged collection of essays An Unspoken Hunger. Most of the selections will be familiar and perhaps unsurprising to regular readers of contemporary nature writing; Gardner might have ranged a bit farther afield to bring in lesser-known voices (and voices from spiritual traditions outside of northern Europe). Even so, his book makes for a useful companion to slip into an office desk drawer or glove compartment--if not the backpack pocket David Brower would surely prefer. --Gregory McNamee
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"The Sacred Earth is a penetrating collection of crystalline prose presented as poetry, circling and building and creeping up on us. In the end, it may indeed change our view of the earth and out place in it." — from the foreword by David Brower
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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An anthology worthy of the name,
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This review is from: The Sacred Earth: Writers on Nature and Spirit (Paperback)
Jason Gardner's anthology presents a eloquent argument for nature writing--writing that explores how the power of the outdoors works on the soul-- to be accorded a more central place in the American literary landscape. The passages are short, but are thoughtfully arranged into sections--experience,texture,practice and belief, that speaks to that part in all of us that looks to the woods for a meaning that isn't easily defined and can't be found at Starbucks or on a hurried camping trip over a long weekend. The old, gravelly voices of Emerson, Thoreau are here, as well as Whitman's exulted one. But, the strongest part of the collection are new voices--some now established (Rick Bass, Barry Lopez);others less well-known but equally compelling (C.L Rawlins, John Haines). Surpising voices too. Louise Erdrich's passage about a religion of grass is just great literature. Small enought to fit into a day pack, Sacred Earth lets everyone in--this is no erudite tome.Its words affect you in a visceral way that is a lot like sitting under your favorite tree and listening to the woods shift.
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A Marvelous Reminder of Great Nature Writing,
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This review is from: The Sacred Earth: Writers on Nature and Spirit (Paperback)
Gardner's small treasure of spirited selections from some of the flat-out best writers on the planet (who just happen to write richly about the natural world, among other things!) is perfect and welcome. A compact and elegant volume, small enough for the reader to carry anywhere and writing grand enough to carry the reader anywhere!
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A soul satisfying book,
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This review is from: The Sacred Earth: Writers on Nature and Spirit (Paperback)
These brief writings are to be savoured, maybe reading 2 a day and thinking about them before turning the page. Many different authors but all are fantastic writers who respect and honor nature.
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