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Nature, My Teacher

How to Be Alive in a World Under Threat
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232 Seiten
Englisch
Barbican Presserschienen am16.04.2024
Make this book your friend, says Arianna Huffington.James Thornton´s Nature, My Teacher, is a powerful guide to being human in a time of eco-crisis.In Nature, My Teacher, poet, lawyer and founder of top global environmental group ClientEarth, James Thornton offers a meditation on being alive while the planet fights to survive. He explores topics such as memory, climate anxiety, and human consciousness through a series of short essays, arranged into twelve books , each closing with a poem and a photo to leave readers in a reflective space.As a Zen priest from Los Angeles, James contemplates what he has learnt from observing and listening to nature, and shows that when the planet is hurting, we too feel its pain.The way this book is opening hearts and minds is remarkable. Arianna Huffington found it powerful and moving , Zen abbot and author Joan Halifax sums: A profound guide to discovering the great wisdom in the natural world, this book...is a treasure for all .mehr
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KlappentextMake this book your friend, says Arianna Huffington.James Thornton´s Nature, My Teacher, is a powerful guide to being human in a time of eco-crisis.In Nature, My Teacher, poet, lawyer and founder of top global environmental group ClientEarth, James Thornton offers a meditation on being alive while the planet fights to survive. He explores topics such as memory, climate anxiety, and human consciousness through a series of short essays, arranged into twelve books , each closing with a poem and a photo to leave readers in a reflective space.As a Zen priest from Los Angeles, James contemplates what he has learnt from observing and listening to nature, and shows that when the planet is hurting, we too feel its pain.The way this book is opening hearts and minds is remarkable. Arianna Huffington found it powerful and moving , Zen abbot and author Joan Halifax sums: A profound guide to discovering the great wisdom in the natural world, this book...is a treasure for all .
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-909954-93-9
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
FormatGenäht
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum16.04.2024
Seiten232 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 132 mm, Höhe 209 mm, Dicke 16 mm
Gewicht349 g
Artikel-Nr.60653524
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GenreRomane Hardcover

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction15The Book of Nature16The Book of Self and Other44The Book of Memory62The Book of Questions80The Book of Mind98The Book of Millions of Years114The Book of Compassion Arising128The Book of the Warming Earth144The Book of Anxiety160The Book of Unapologetic Rest184The Book of Simple Wants196The Book of Things I Need to Remember210Endnotes229Acknowledgments231mehr

Autor

James Thornton is a poet, Zen Buddhist priest, and founder and president of ClientEarth, the leading global not-for-profit law group. As a lawyer, with the Earth as his client, James sees that 'Nature speaks in the grammar of science'. He is a Conservation Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society. The New Statesman named him one of 10 people who could change the world. Irish-American, born in New York, James is also the author of Client Earth (Scribe 2018), co-authored with his husband Martin Goodman, which received the Judges' Selection, Business Book of the Year Award 2018, and the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature from Santa Monica Public Library. He has twice won Leader of the Year at the Business Green Awards. For his legal work, The Financial Times awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award. His writing includes two novels, a book of spiritual practice, and three volumes of poetry. He was a judge for the 2020 Laurel Awards for Ecopoetry. He lives in London and Los Angeles.
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