ANTHOLOGY
NATURE LOVE MEDICINE
Essays on Wildness and Wellness
“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.”
—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.
November 2017 | Nonfiction | 978-1-937226-77-0 | 265pp | $18.95
CONTRIBUTORS TO NATURE LOVE MEDICINE
Elisabeth Tova Bailey | Melanie Bishop | Alberto Búrquez | Alison Hawthorne Deming
Edie Dillon | Thomas Lowe Fleischner | Gwen Annette Heistand | Jane Hirshfield
Pablo Deustua Jochamowitz | Peter H. Kahn, Jr. | Robin Wall Kimmerer | Judith Lydeamore
Gary Paul Nabhan | Nalini Nadkarni | Thich Nhat Hanh | Sarah Juniper Rabkin | Jana Richman Lauret Savoy | Laura Sewall | Mitchell Thomashow | Stephen Trimble | Saul Weisberg
Brooke Williams
ABOUT THE EDITOR
THOMAS LOWE FLEISCHNER, a naturalist and conservation biologist, is a leading voice advocating for the importance and rejuvenation of natural history. He is the author of numerous articles and professional papers and author or editor of four books, including The Way of Natural History and Nature, Love, Medicine: Essays On Wildness and Wellness. He was the founding director of the Natural History Institute and is Faculty Emeritus at Prescott College. He has led and coordinated efforts to recognize the high biodiversity values of the Mogollon Highlands Ecoregion of the American Southwest. He lives in Prescott, Arizona.
PRAISE FOR NATURE LOVE MEDICINE
“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 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
