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""...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."" --BOOKLIST Throughout this illuminating collection, a diverse array of people--psychologists and poets, biologists and artists, a Buddhist teacher--share personal stories that reveal a common theme: when we pay conscious, careful attention to our wider world, we strengthen our core humanity. Nature Love Medicine: Essays on Wildness and Wellness declares that nurturing a love for our biologically and culturally diverse planet is essential in this time of turbulence and change.

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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. --<b>ALAN WEISMAN</b>, author of <i>The World Without Us</i> and <i>Countdown</i> A sigh of relief, a blessing from some of the continent's most beautiful writers, a cooling breeze for an over-heated time--Tom Fleischner's new anthology is a pleasure, start to finish. --<b>KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE</b>, author of <i>Piano Tide</i> and <i>Great Tide Rising</i>

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. --LIBRARY JOURNAL 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. --BOOKLIST 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. --FOREWORD REVIEWS In Nature, Love, Medicine, 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. --ALAN WEISMAN, author of The World Without Us 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. --KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE, author of Piano Tide

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. --LIBRARY JOURNAL 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. --BOOKLIST 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. --FOREWORD REVIEWS In Nature, Love, Medicine, 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. --ALAN WEISMAN, author of The World Without Us 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. --KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE, author of Piano Tide

"""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."" --LIBRARY JOURNAL ""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."" --BOOKLIST ""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."" --FOREWORD REVIEWS ""In Nature, Love, Medicine, 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."" --ALAN WEISMAN, author of The World Without Us ""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."" --KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE, author of Piano Tide"

-In Nature, Love, Medicine, 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.---ALAN WEISMAN, author of The World Without Us and Countdown -A sigh of relief, a blessing from some of the continent's most beautiful writers, a cooling breeze for an over-heated time--Tom Fleischner's new anthology is a pleasure, start to finish.---KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE, author of Piano Tide and Great Tide Rising

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THOMAS LOWE FLEISCHNER, editor of Nature, Love, Medicine, 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 The Way of Natural History and authored Singing Stone: A Natural History of the Escalante Canyons and Desert Wetlands, as well as numerous professional articles.

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