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Author | : John Mark Green |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2018-10-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781725944541 |
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In Taste the Wild Wonder, fresh new poetic voice John Mark Green takes the reader on a transformative journey, awakening the heart to see the world with new eyes. This imaginative collection explores life, mortality, meaning, creativity, love, wonder, and nature, through the windows of 71 poems and 11 interior illustrations. These poems are infused with what the Japanese call yūgen - "a profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe ... and the sad beauty of human suffering" (Benito Ortolani), and wabi-sabi - the beauty of impermanent, imperfect, and transient things. Since 2014, John Mark Green has grown a worldwide following for his poetry on social media. This is his first book. From the back cover Born of the ancient star remnants in our bones and nameless longings of the human heart, this poetry collection explores the firefly flicker of existence amidst the vast reaches of time and space. Capturing feelings of awe and aching beauty which stir the imagination, it illuminates our brief but glorious moment on life's stage. Imbued with the knowledge that everything we hold beautiful is inexorably slipping through our fingers, these poems are trail markers on a journey of awakening to the wild wonder which surrounds us, leading readers on a whirlwind tour of our place in the grand tapestry of nature, with a perspective which both dazzles and delights. Praise for Taste the Wild Wonder "John Mark Green writes with soul and weaves poetry from love and bones and fire. His new book is art and includes illustrations that complement the words beautifully." Jacob Nordby, author of Blessed Are the Weird - A Manifesto for Creatives
Author | : Andy Brennan |
Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019-06-17 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 1603588450 |
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Today, food is being reconsidered. It’s a front-and-center topic in everything from politics to art, from science to economics. We know now that leaving food to government and industry specialists was one of the twentieth century’s greatest mistakes. The question is where do we go from here. Author Andy Brennan describes uncultivation as a process: It involves exploring the wild; recognizing that much of nature is omitted from our conventional ways of seeing and doing things (our cultivations); and realizing the advantages to embracing what we’ve somehow forgotten or ignored. For most of us this process can be difficult, like swimming against the strong current of our modern culture. The hero of this book is the wild apple. Uncultivated follows Brennan’s twenty-four-year history with naturalized trees and shows how they have guided him toward successes in agriculture, in the art of cider making, and in creating a small-farm business. The book contains useful information relevant to those particular fields, but is designed to connect the wild to a far greater audience, skillfully blending cultural criticism with a food activist’s agenda. Apples rank among the most manipulated crops in the world, because not only do farmers want perfect fruit, they also assume the health of the tree depends on human intervention. Yet wild trees live all around us, and left to their own devices, they achieve different forms of success that modernity fails to apprehend. Andy Brennan learned of the health and taste advantages of such trees, and by emulating nature in his orchard (and in his cider) he has also enjoyed environmental and financial benefits. None of this would be possible by following today’s prevailing winds of apple cultivation. In all fields, our cultural perspective is limited by a parallel proclivity. It’s not just agriculture: we all must fight tendencies toward specialization, efficiency, linear thought, and predetermined growth. We have cultivated those tendencies at the exclusion of nature’s full range. If Uncultivated is about faith in nature, and the power it has to deliver us from our own mistakes, then wild apple trees have already shown us the way.
Author | : Tina Welling |
Publisher | : New World Library |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1608682870 |
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Align Your Creative Energy with Nature’s “Everything we know about creating,” writes Tina Welling, “we know intuitively from the natural world.” In Writing Wild, Welling details a three-step “Spirit Walk” process for inviting nature to enliven and inspire our creativity.
Author | : Aimee Nezhukumatathil |
Publisher | : Milkweed Editions |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2020-09-08 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 157131959X |
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“A poet celebrates the wonders of nature in a collection of essays that could almost serve as a coming-of-age memoir.” —Kirkus Reviews As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter where she was transplanted—no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape—she was able to turn to our world’s fierce and funny creatures for guidance. “What the peacock can do,” she tells us, “is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life.” The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances; the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world’s gifts. Warm, lyrical, and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Nakamura, World of Wonders is a book of sustenance and joy. Praise for World of Wonders Barnes & Noble 2020 Book of the Year An NPR Best Book of 2020 An Esquire Best Book of 2020 A Publishers Weekly “Big Indie Book of Fall 2020” A BuzzFeed Best Book of Fall 2020 “Hands-down one of the most beautiful books of the year.” —NPR “A timely story about love, identity and belonging.” —New York Times Book Review “A truly wonderous essay collection.” —Roxane Gay, The Audacity
Author | : Barbara Kingsolver |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0061868647 |
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In twenty-two wonderfully articulate essays, Barbara Kingsolver raises her voice in praise of nature, family, literature, and the joys of everyday life while examining the genesis of war, violence, and poverty in our world From the author of High Tide in Tucson, comes Small Wonder, a new collection of essays that begins with a parable gleaned from recent news: villagers search for a missing infant boy and find him, unharmed, in the cave of a dangerous bear that has mothered him like one of her own. Clearly, our understanding of evil needs to be revised. What we fear most can save us. From this tale, Barbara Kingsolver goes on to consider the chasm between the privileged and the poor, which she sees as the root cause of violence and war in our time. She writes about her attachment to the land, to nature and wilderness, trees and mountains-the place from which she tells her stories. Whether worrying about the dangers of genetically engineered food crops, or creating opportunities for children to feel useful and competent - like growing food for the family’s table - Kingsolver looks for small wonders, where they grow, and celebrates them.
Author | : John Paul Carinci |
Publisher | : Archway Publishing |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2021-10-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1665714212 |
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People often wonder what life is about. Is there a reason for human existence? Society’s persistent negativity is choking people, and we need something to grasp. In There is Greatness within You, author John Paul Carinci helps you stand out from the crowd, change your life, your attitude, and maintain a newfound uniqueness to last a lifetime. Offering encouragement, he presents a collection of real-life examples from the truly successful who have excelled in their fields. Carinci analyzes the principles that have helped the achievers, who have ignored the negatives, to rise to the top: • understand the power of the mind; • possess an all-consuming desire to succeed; • know perseverance is the magic potion; • recognize the subconscious mind; • grasp the purpose of life; and • draw inspiration from life around you. There is Greatness within You prompts you to start today to change your life through the lessons of success. Praise for There is Greatness within You “In reading John Paul Carinci’s fourth self-help book There is Greatness within You, I felt that he was sitting in the room speaking directly to me. The stories and advice John offers in this fantastic book will help you realize what you need to do to improve your life immediately. It also proves each one of us holds the key to our success and happiness.” —Dr. Ramon M. Liriano, book reviewer “There is Greatness within You, by John Paul Carinci is: Awesome, insightful, and inspiring, and life changing. A must read. —Joseph Bonsanti, book reviewer
Author | : John Mark Green |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2020-07-19 |
Genre | : |
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Download She Had a Very Inconvenient Heart Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Once upon a time, there lived a woman afflicted by a heart which felt things far too deeply."Thus begins the tale of Cardia; an empath who longs to be free from emotional pain. Her quest for relief leads to a talking raven, a mysterious Collector who seeks unborn dreams, and an unsavory surgeon with a magical knife. Finally, Cardia finds peace. But when she meets Vatis-a traveling troubadour who falls deeply in love with her-is she doomed to forever regret her desperate decision, or will love triumph over every obstacle?Poet John Mark Green has penned a moving story that explores the extremes the human heart can drive us to. A modern fairy tale for all who dare to believe in love and magic.This edition also includes "If the Stars Should Ever Die", "Leaves from Another World," and an author Q&A interview.
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2001-03-06 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780393321159 |
Download Wild Fruits Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Thoreau presents information about the "'unnoticed wild berry whose beauty annually lends a new charm to some wild walk, '" along with what "may be considered Thoreau's last will and testament, in which he protests our desecration of the landscape, reflects on the importance of preserving wild space 'for instruction and recreation, ' and envisions a new American scripture."--Jacket.
Author | : Edward F. Mooney |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2015-10-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501305662 |
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Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau's writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious. Edward F. Mooney's excursions through passages from Walden, Cape Cod, and his late essay “Walking” reveal Thoreau as a miraculous writer, artist, and religious adept. Of course Thoreau remains the familiar political activist and environmental philosopher, but in these fifteen excursions we discover new terrain. Among the notable themes that emerge are Thoreau's grappling with underlying affliction; his pursuit of wonder as ameliorating affliction; his use of the enigmatic image of “a child of the mist”; his exalting “sympathy with intelligence” over plain knowledge; and his preferring “befitting reverie”-not argument-as the way to be carried to better, cleaner perceptions of reality. Mooney's aim is bring alive Thoreau's moments of reverie and insight, and to frame his philosophy as poetic and episodic rather than discursive and systematic.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 790 |
Release | : 1862 |
Genre | : American literature |
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