Author: Sean Padraig O'Donoghue
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1623175704
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
A guide book for tapping into the medicinal power of wild plants for recovering and maintaining spiritual, emotional, and mental wellbeing. Our ancestors drew health, strength, nourishment, and meaning from their relationship to the natural world, and yet today most of us have lost that vital connection. It should then come as no surprise that we are living in an age of unprecedented anxiety, depression, loneliness, and illness. Drawing from herbal medicine, somatic psychology, Celtic wisdom, and his own experiences, author Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue outlines an approach to herbal healing for the mind and spirit that is uniquely suited to our modern times. Plants are our wild kindred and have the power to connect us with the life within and around us. O'Donoghue takes readers on a journey through some of the ways our bodies, minds, and spirits have become unbalanced in an unbalanced world. He then blends lyrical, mythic, and scientific understandings to help us to understand the potent power of plant medicine. Also included are simple rituals designed to deepen our connections to our own bodies, the land, and both new and familiar plant allies. This is the ideal book for anyone new to herbalism, as well as seasoned herbalists, naturopaths, body workers, and psychologists.
The Forest Reminds Us Who We Are
Author: Sean Padraig O'Donoghue
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1623175704
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
A guide book for tapping into the medicinal power of wild plants for recovering and maintaining spiritual, emotional, and mental wellbeing. Our ancestors drew health, strength, nourishment, and meaning from their relationship to the natural world, and yet today most of us have lost that vital connection. It should then come as no surprise that we are living in an age of unprecedented anxiety, depression, loneliness, and illness. Drawing from herbal medicine, somatic psychology, Celtic wisdom, and his own experiences, author Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue outlines an approach to herbal healing for the mind and spirit that is uniquely suited to our modern times. Plants are our wild kindred and have the power to connect us with the life within and around us. O'Donoghue takes readers on a journey through some of the ways our bodies, minds, and spirits have become unbalanced in an unbalanced world. He then blends lyrical, mythic, and scientific understandings to help us to understand the potent power of plant medicine. Also included are simple rituals designed to deepen our connections to our own bodies, the land, and both new and familiar plant allies. This is the ideal book for anyone new to herbalism, as well as seasoned herbalists, naturopaths, body workers, and psychologists.
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1623175704
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
A guide book for tapping into the medicinal power of wild plants for recovering and maintaining spiritual, emotional, and mental wellbeing. Our ancestors drew health, strength, nourishment, and meaning from their relationship to the natural world, and yet today most of us have lost that vital connection. It should then come as no surprise that we are living in an age of unprecedented anxiety, depression, loneliness, and illness. Drawing from herbal medicine, somatic psychology, Celtic wisdom, and his own experiences, author Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue outlines an approach to herbal healing for the mind and spirit that is uniquely suited to our modern times. Plants are our wild kindred and have the power to connect us with the life within and around us. O'Donoghue takes readers on a journey through some of the ways our bodies, minds, and spirits have become unbalanced in an unbalanced world. He then blends lyrical, mythic, and scientific understandings to help us to understand the potent power of plant medicine. Also included are simple rituals designed to deepen our connections to our own bodies, the land, and both new and familiar plant allies. This is the ideal book for anyone new to herbalism, as well as seasoned herbalists, naturopaths, body workers, and psychologists.
The Songs of Trees
Author: David George Haskell
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143111302
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
WINNER OF THE 2018 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING NATURAL HISTORY WRITING “Both a love song to trees, an exploration of their biology, and a wonderfully philosophical analysis of their role they play in human history and in modern culture.” —Science Friday The author of Sounds Wild and Broken and the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature’s most magnificent networkers — trees David Haskell has won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, he brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees, exploring connections with people, microbes, fungi, and other plants and animals. He takes us to trees in cities (from Manhattan to Jerusalem), forests (Amazonian, North American, and boreal) and areas on the front lines of environmental change (eroding coastlines, burned mountainsides, and war zones.) In each place he shows how human history, ecology, and well-being are intimately intertwined with the lives of trees. Scientific, lyrical, and contemplative, Haskell reveals the biological connections that underpin all life. In a world beset by barriers, he reminds us that life’s substance and beauty emerge from relationship and interdependence.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143111302
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
WINNER OF THE 2018 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING NATURAL HISTORY WRITING “Both a love song to trees, an exploration of their biology, and a wonderfully philosophical analysis of their role they play in human history and in modern culture.” —Science Friday The author of Sounds Wild and Broken and the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature’s most magnificent networkers — trees David Haskell has won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, he brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees, exploring connections with people, microbes, fungi, and other plants and animals. He takes us to trees in cities (from Manhattan to Jerusalem), forests (Amazonian, North American, and boreal) and areas on the front lines of environmental change (eroding coastlines, burned mountainsides, and war zones.) In each place he shows how human history, ecology, and well-being are intimately intertwined with the lives of trees. Scientific, lyrical, and contemplative, Haskell reveals the biological connections that underpin all life. In a world beset by barriers, he reminds us that life’s substance and beauty emerge from relationship and interdependence.
The Forest
Author: William J. Pomeroy
Publisher: UP Press
ISBN: 9715426352
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
While writing a book on the Hukbalahap, a wartime anti-Japanese resistance movement in the Philippines, William "Bill" Pomeroy met and fell in love with Celia Mariano, one of its most active women members. The Forest tells the story of the two years--1950-1952--Bill and Celia spent in the mountains with the Huks.
Publisher: UP Press
ISBN: 9715426352
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
While writing a book on the Hukbalahap, a wartime anti-Japanese resistance movement in the Philippines, William "Bill" Pomeroy met and fell in love with Celia Mariano, one of its most active women members. The Forest tells the story of the two years--1950-1952--Bill and Celia spent in the mountains with the Huks.
Planting in a Post-Wild World
Author: Thomas Rainer
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604697202
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
“As practical as it is poetic. . . . an optimistic call to action.” —Chicago Tribune Over time, with industrialization and urban sprawl, we have driven nature out of our neighborhoods and cities. But we can invite it back by designing landscapes that look and function more like they do in the wild: robust, diverse, and visually harmonious. Planting in a Post-Wild World by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West is an inspiring call to action dedicated to the idea of a new nature—a hybrid of both the wild and the cultivated—that can flourish in our cities and suburbs. This is both a post-wild manifesto and practical guide that describes how to incorporate and layer plants into plant communities to create an environment that is reflective of natural systems and thrives within our built world.
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604697202
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
“As practical as it is poetic. . . . an optimistic call to action.” —Chicago Tribune Over time, with industrialization and urban sprawl, we have driven nature out of our neighborhoods and cities. But we can invite it back by designing landscapes that look and function more like they do in the wild: robust, diverse, and visually harmonious. Planting in a Post-Wild World by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West is an inspiring call to action dedicated to the idea of a new nature—a hybrid of both the wild and the cultivated—that can flourish in our cities and suburbs. This is both a post-wild manifesto and practical guide that describes how to incorporate and layer plants into plant communities to create an environment that is reflective of natural systems and thrives within our built world.
Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana
Author: Daniel Boucher
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824861655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Bodhisattvas of the Forest delves into the socioreligious milieu of the authors, editors, and propagators of the Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra (Questions of Rastrapala), a Buddhist text circulating in India during the first half of the first millennium C.E. In this meticulously researched study, Daniel Boucher first reflects upon the problems that plague historians of Mahayana Buddhism, whose previous efforts to comprehend the tradition have often ignored the social dynamics that motivated some of the innovations of this new literature. Following that is a careful analysis of several motifs found in the Indian text and an examination of the value of the earliest Chinese translation for charting the sutra’s evolution. The first part of the study looks at the relationship between the bodily glorification of the Buddha and the ascetic career—spanning thousands of lifetimes—that produced it within the socioeconomic world of early medieval Buddhist monasticism. The authors of the Rastrapala sharply criticize their monastic contemporaries for rejecting the rigorous lifestyle of the first Buddhist communities, an ideal that, for the sutra’s authors, self-consciously imitates the disciplines and sacrifices of the Buddha’s own bodhisattva career, the very career that led to his acquisition of bodily perfection. Thus, Boucher reveals the ways in which the authors of the Rastrapala authors co-opted this topos concerning the bodily perfection of the Buddha from the Mainstream tradition to subvert their co-religionists whose behavior they regarded as representing a degenerate version of that tradition. In Part 2 Boucher focuses on the third-century Chinese translation of the sutra attributed to Dharmaraksa and traces the changes in the translation to the late tenth century. The significance of this translation, Boucher explains, is to be found in the ways it differs from all other witnesses. These differences, which are significant, almost certainly reveal an earlier shape of the sutra before later editors were inspired to alter dramatically the text’s tone and rhetoric. The early Chinese translations, though invaluable in revealing developments in the Indian milieu that led to changes in the text, present particular challenges to the interpreter. It takes an understanding of not only their abstruse idiom, but also the process by which they were rendered from an undetermined Indian language into a Chinese cultural uh_product. One of the signal contributions of this study is Boucher’s skill at identifying the traces left by the process and ability to uncover clues about the nature of the source text as well as the world of the principal recipients. Bodhisattvas of the Forest concludes with an annotated translation of the Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra based on a new reading of its earliest extant Sanskrit manuscript. The translation takes note of important variants in Chinese and Tibetan versions to correct the many corruptions of the Sanskrit manuscript.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824861655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Bodhisattvas of the Forest delves into the socioreligious milieu of the authors, editors, and propagators of the Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra (Questions of Rastrapala), a Buddhist text circulating in India during the first half of the first millennium C.E. In this meticulously researched study, Daniel Boucher first reflects upon the problems that plague historians of Mahayana Buddhism, whose previous efforts to comprehend the tradition have often ignored the social dynamics that motivated some of the innovations of this new literature. Following that is a careful analysis of several motifs found in the Indian text and an examination of the value of the earliest Chinese translation for charting the sutra’s evolution. The first part of the study looks at the relationship between the bodily glorification of the Buddha and the ascetic career—spanning thousands of lifetimes—that produced it within the socioeconomic world of early medieval Buddhist monasticism. The authors of the Rastrapala sharply criticize their monastic contemporaries for rejecting the rigorous lifestyle of the first Buddhist communities, an ideal that, for the sutra’s authors, self-consciously imitates the disciplines and sacrifices of the Buddha’s own bodhisattva career, the very career that led to his acquisition of bodily perfection. Thus, Boucher reveals the ways in which the authors of the Rastrapala authors co-opted this topos concerning the bodily perfection of the Buddha from the Mainstream tradition to subvert their co-religionists whose behavior they regarded as representing a degenerate version of that tradition. In Part 2 Boucher focuses on the third-century Chinese translation of the sutra attributed to Dharmaraksa and traces the changes in the translation to the late tenth century. The significance of this translation, Boucher explains, is to be found in the ways it differs from all other witnesses. These differences, which are significant, almost certainly reveal an earlier shape of the sutra before later editors were inspired to alter dramatically the text’s tone and rhetoric. The early Chinese translations, though invaluable in revealing developments in the Indian milieu that led to changes in the text, present particular challenges to the interpreter. It takes an understanding of not only their abstruse idiom, but also the process by which they were rendered from an undetermined Indian language into a Chinese cultural uh_product. One of the signal contributions of this study is Boucher’s skill at identifying the traces left by the process and ability to uncover clues about the nature of the source text as well as the world of the principal recipients. Bodhisattvas of the Forest concludes with an annotated translation of the Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra based on a new reading of its earliest extant Sanskrit manuscript. The translation takes note of important variants in Chinese and Tibetan versions to correct the many corruptions of the Sanskrit manuscript.
Awakening to Animal Voices
Author: Dawn Baumann Brunke
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892811366
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Contains information, advice, games, exercises, and experiments to access your natural ability to communicate with the animal kingdom.
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892811366
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Contains information, advice, games, exercises, and experiments to access your natural ability to communicate with the animal kingdom.
Walk
Author: Jim Probst
Publisher: Eastview Christian Church
ISBN: 098410948X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher: Eastview Christian Church
ISBN: 098410948X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Country Life
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ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Enchanted Echoes of the Snowy Forest
Author: Michael Southern Sr.
Publisher: Michael Southern Sr.
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
🌟 Welcome to the Enchanted Forest! 🌟 Join the adventure of a lifetime with the Nature Explorers Club in this enchanting tale of friendship, mystery, and the magic of nature! When a group of curious kids stumbles upon a hidden forest where animals can talk, they find themselves on a thrilling quest to uncover the secret behind a missing animal. 🐾 Discover the Wonders of the Wild! As they navigate through the lush, vibrant ecosystem, our fearless explorers will meet fascinating creatures, each with their own stories to tell. From the wise old owl to the mischievous squirrel, every character plays a special role in teaching the children about the delicate balance of nature and the importance of protecting our environment. 🌍 Learn While You Laugh! Packed with exciting adventures and heartwarming lessons, this book will not only captivate young imaginations but also inspire a lifelong love for nature. Children will learn valuable insights about ecology, animal behavior, and the simple steps they can take to be environmental stewards in their own communities. ✨ Why You’ll Love It: Ignites Curiosity: Spark your child’s imagination and love for the outdoors! Educational Fun: A perfect blend of entertainment and valuable lessons about wildlife and conservation. A Heartwarming Journey: Follow the kids as they band together, solve the mystery, and strengthen their bond with nature and each other. Get ready to embark on an unforgettable journey through the enchanted forest! Will you help the Nature Explorers Club solve the mystery and protect their newfound friends? Grab your copy today and let the adventure begin! 🌲🦉💚
Publisher: Michael Southern Sr.
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
🌟 Welcome to the Enchanted Forest! 🌟 Join the adventure of a lifetime with the Nature Explorers Club in this enchanting tale of friendship, mystery, and the magic of nature! When a group of curious kids stumbles upon a hidden forest where animals can talk, they find themselves on a thrilling quest to uncover the secret behind a missing animal. 🐾 Discover the Wonders of the Wild! As they navigate through the lush, vibrant ecosystem, our fearless explorers will meet fascinating creatures, each with their own stories to tell. From the wise old owl to the mischievous squirrel, every character plays a special role in teaching the children about the delicate balance of nature and the importance of protecting our environment. 🌍 Learn While You Laugh! Packed with exciting adventures and heartwarming lessons, this book will not only captivate young imaginations but also inspire a lifelong love for nature. Children will learn valuable insights about ecology, animal behavior, and the simple steps they can take to be environmental stewards in their own communities. ✨ Why You’ll Love It: Ignites Curiosity: Spark your child’s imagination and love for the outdoors! Educational Fun: A perfect blend of entertainment and valuable lessons about wildlife and conservation. A Heartwarming Journey: Follow the kids as they band together, solve the mystery, and strengthen their bond with nature and each other. Get ready to embark on an unforgettable journey through the enchanted forest! Will you help the Nature Explorers Club solve the mystery and protect their newfound friends? Grab your copy today and let the adventure begin! 🌲🦉💚
An Unexpected Wilderness
Author: Carpenter, Colleen Mary
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608336328
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
At a time when ecological issues are prominent in religious and social discourse, this perfectly timed volume expresses a broad range of insights and opinions on ecology and the relationship between Christianity and the natural world. Topics are not limited to traditional environmental issues, but instead feature a variety of academic disciplines and experiences to dwell on "wildernesses" that are sometimes dangerous, sometimes sanctuaries, and often the source of graced encounter. (Publisher).
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608336328
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
At a time when ecological issues are prominent in religious and social discourse, this perfectly timed volume expresses a broad range of insights and opinions on ecology and the relationship between Christianity and the natural world. Topics are not limited to traditional environmental issues, but instead feature a variety of academic disciplines and experiences to dwell on "wildernesses" that are sometimes dangerous, sometimes sanctuaries, and often the source of graced encounter. (Publisher).