The Sacred Earth: Writers on Nature and Spirit

by Jason Gardner

Book Overview

"The Sacred Earth" is a treasury of quotations that celebrates our spiritual bond with nature--presented in a gift book format. This collection includes works by Peter Matthiessen, Barry Lopez, Terry... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1577310683
• ISBN13: 9781577310686
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: New World Library
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

A soul satisfying book

These brief writings are to be savoured, maybe reading 2 a day and thinking about them before turning the page. Many different authors but all are fantastic writers who respect and honor nature.

The Sacred Earth, Our prayer for the day

We have had this book for a few years and read it at breakfast each morning to start the day as a spiritual beginning and awareness of the world we live in. We recently bought another book for our grandson who has expressed a desire to feel the earth as part of his larger self.

A Marvelous Reminder of Great Nature Writing

Gardner's small treasure of spirited selections from some of the flat-out best writers on the planet (who just happen to write richly about the natural world, among other things!) is perfect and welcome. A compact and elegant volume, small enough for the reader to carry anywhere and writing grand enough to carry the reader anywhere!

An anthology worthy of the name

Jason Gardner's anthology presents a eloquent argument for nature writing--writing that explores how the power of the outdoors works on the soul-- to be accorded a more central place in the American literary landscape. The passages are short, but are thoughtfully arranged into sections--experience,texture,practice and belief, that speaks to that part in all of us that looks to the woods for a meaning that isn't easily defined and can't be found at Starbucks or on a hurried camping trip over a long weekend. The old, gravelly voices of Emerson, Thoreau are here, as well as Whitman's exulted one. But, the strongest part of the collection are new voices--some now established (Rick Bass, Barry Lopez);others less well-known but equally compelling (C.L Rawlins, John Haines). Surpising voices too. Louise Erdrich's passage about a religion of grass is just great literature. Small enought to fit into a day pack, Sacred Earth lets everyone in--this is no erudite tome.Its words affect you in a visceral way that is a lot like sitting under your favorite tree and listening to the woods shift.