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Jon Young: Nature Connection & How to Prepare for the Future

2020

We face a challenging future of complexity and climate chaos. Jon Young of the 8 Shields Institute explains why nature connection can help us to read the Book of Life, and take care of the land, each other and ourselves. See more...

05:33 min

Another Turn of the Crank: Essays

From modern health care to the practice of forestry, from local focus to national resolve, Wendell Berry argues, there can never be a separation between global ecosystems and human communities—the two are intricately connected, and the health and survival of one depends upon the other.

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The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings

Mr. Berry moves deftly between the real and the imagined. The Art of Loading Brush is an energetic mix of essays and stories, including “The Thought of Limits in a Prodigal Age,” which explores Agrarian ideals as they present themselves historically and as they might apply to our work today.

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A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural

The title of this book is taken from an account by Thomas F. Hornbein on his travels in the Himalayas. “It seemed to me,” Horenbein wrote, “that here man lived in continuous harmony with the land, as much as briefly a part of it as all its other occupants.

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It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays

An impassioned and rigorous appeal for reconnection to the land and human feeling by one of America’s most heartfelt and humble writers.

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The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture.

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The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families.

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The Healing Magic of Forest Bathing: Finding Calm, Creativity, and Connection in the Natural World

Forest bathing is the art of spending intentional time in nature and is practiced throughout the world to increase health and restore well-being. More and more people are turning to forest bathing as an evidence-based way to unplug, relieve stress and anxiety, and spark creativity.

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The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature

Reveals the use of direct perception in understanding Nature, medicinal plants, and the healing of human disease • Explores the techniques used by indigenous and Western peoples to learn directly from the plants themselves, including those of Henry David Thoreau, Goethe, and Masanobu Fukuoka,...

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Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth

A manual for opening the doors of perception and directly engaging the intelligence of the Natural World • Provides exercises to directly perceive and interact with the complex, living, self-organizing being that is Gaia • Reveals that every life form on Earth is highly intelligent and...

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Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects

Coming Back to Life has helped people transform denial, despair and grief in the face of the social and ecological challenges of our time.

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Connection with Nature