This collection of 12 essays has been assembled out of a concern that many young people in America have little contact with the world of nature. The essays aspire to awaken in readers the wish to assist young people by guiding them to what lies outside their front door or in a local park or woodland, and that true nature experience will come to replace what is surely a powerful form of addiction, a dependency on text messages, e-mails and videos and a torrent of unreal, virtual images. A challenge stands squarely before us: How can we begin to address the malaise of indifference to nature so widespread among our young people?

Children & Nature: Making Connections

David Sobel

Richard Louv

Scott Russell Sanders

Kelly McMasters

Richard Lewis

Medicine Grizzlybear Lake

Lowell Monke

Stephanie Hanes

George K. Russell

Pattiann Rogers

James E. Higgins

Carolyn Jabs

The Myrin Institute

This exquisite book marries the work and imagery of two artists, a landscape painter working in the medium of monotype and a writer working in the medium of poetry, both expressing their personal responses to nature passing through the metamorphoses of the four seasons.

A Covenant of Seasons: Monotypes by Joellyn T. Duesberry, Poetry by Pattiann Rogers

Arts & Photography

David Curry

History & Criticism

Hudson Hills

Summer's Company: Poems

Not Avail

Perhaps nothing illuminates the complexity of our relationship to the natural world better than the relationship between people and animals: we wonder at them, use them, adore them, mourn them, protect them, cause them suffering. The essays collected here explore these contradicitons in all their difficulty, but they also celebrate our connection to the animal world and provide a model for how we might respect and revere our fellow animals more deeply. As Pattiann Rogers writes, "For how can we possess dignity if we allow them no dignity? Who will recognize our beauty if we do not revel in their beauty?...How can we believe in grace if we cannot bestow grace?"

Animals & People

Mary Oliver

Craig Childs

Brian Doyle

Amy Leach

SY MONTGOMERY

Christopher Ketcham

J.B. MacKinnon

Lisa Couturier

DAVID GESSNER

Kathleen JAMIE

The Orion Society

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Books by Pattiann Rogers