Crushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom, deeply rooted to the poet’s motherland and their experience as a parent, herbalist and careful observer of the patterns and power of their territory. Jess Housty grapples with the natural and the supernatural, transformation and the hard work of living that our bodies are doing—held by mountains, by oceans, by ancestors and by the grief and love that come with communing.Housty’s poems are ...

Part memoir, part natural history, part mindfulness guide, this charming love letter to the natural world explores the many ways animals can enrich our livesTo be alienated from animals is to live a life that is not quite whole, contends nature writer Tai Moses. Urban and suburban residents share their environment with many types of wildlife: squirrels, birds, spiders, and increasingly lizards, deer, and coyote. Many of us crave more contact with wild creatures, an...

In this exploration of the power and spirits of the creatures around us, Maia Toll takes readers through suggested rituals, readings, and reflections in order to cultivate and access each animal’s special energy.From the author of The Illustrated Crystallary and The Illustrated Herbiary, Maia Toll considers the wisdom of the wild and shows what we can learn from the animal kingdom. Learn how the Spring Peeper’s ability to reemerge from frozen hibe...

Timothy Donnelly’s brilliant, breakneck and beautiful poetry has been hailed as some of the most original and exciting new work to emerge from the US in several years. In The Cloud Corporation, Donnelly shows how a wholly engaged poetic sensibility can uncover both beauty and meaning within the bewilderments and complexities of contemporary life, without simplifying either its subject or its own investigative approach. In a Donnelly poem, the reader is never sure quite where the n...

**2023 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards WinnerA wise and colorful collection of ten Buddhist fables, this modern telling of ancient Indian stories, centering around animals and nature, teaches vibrant and timeless life lessons. (Ages 4-8)**Long ago, the Buddha told his followers Jataka Tales, or “birth stories,” about the many lifetimes he lived before he was born as Prince Siddhartha. In this beautiful retelling of ten such stories, the Buddha is introduced as the Queen of ...

An animal-by-animal guide that reveals the meaning behind each encounter we have with animals• Provides sophisticated psychological insight into encounters with more than 150 animals, birds, reptiles, insects, and aquatic life• Explores how animals reflect our inner world, drawing our attention to inner turmoil, relationship issues, spiritual growth, and the deepest needs of the soul• Explains how the meaning of each encounter depends on whether the animal was hunti...

"Beautifully written essays" on animals, "the real and mythological, the ordinary and the exotic, the wild and the domesticated" ( Publishers Weekly).Humans were surrounded by other animals from the beginning of time: they were food, clothes, adversaries, companions, jokes, and gods. And yet, our companions in evolution are leaving the world—both as physical beings and spiritual symbols—and not returning.In this collection of linked essays, Alison Ha...

'I will carry this little book in my pocket... I will read the words on London buses and in Dartmoor woods. These across-species conversations are more than reverie, they are participation.' – Martin Shaw, author of Smoke Hole and Courting the Wild Twin 'This is a book of profound imagination. Read it and you will know that we humans need to be humble and learn from the greatest teacher, Nature.' – Satish Kumar, Editor Emeritus, Resurgence & Ecologist 'Once, we were one form among many in ...

Notable Book in the 2005 Kiriyama Prize and longlisted for the 2005 ReLit AwardsCatherine Greenwood draws on the stories and legends which surround the development of cultured pearls by Mikimoto, the fabulous Pearl King, to engage a rich array of themes, including the clash between an aesthetics of refinement and nuance, and mass manufacture. With discerning wit and a large range of styles and voices, she holds up each subject for contemplation as though it were a ...

The prize-winning author of Thistle shares "a quietly magnificent collection of prose poems" that explore how we connect to the world around us ( Orion).Drawing inspiration from the work of Rene Char, Melissa Kwasny presents a new kind of prose poem in The Nine Senses. These experiments challenge the way we read sequentially, making each line equal to the next as disparate figures and topics appear side by side: Dylan Thomas, Roman water l...

The life of a female black-throated blue warbler over the course of a single breeding season, from migration to migration. An exploration of the natural environment and a celebration of the tenacity of life. An exploration of where the natural sciences meet the natural world and the impact we have on the places we work to protect.

Foxes For Kids - Amazing Animal Books For Young ReadersTable of ContentsIntroductionAbout FoxesCharacteristicsFoxes in different folklore and mythologyRed FoxGray FoxArctic FoxFennec FoxKit FoxSwift FoxBengal FoxSilver FoxCrab-Eating FoxSouth American Gray FoxBat-Eared FoxHoary FoxIntroductionHave you heard about the story of fox and the crow where the fox ...