Wild Peace

Author : Irene Latham
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 125086108X
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Peace written by Irene Latham and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Peace by Irene Latham and Il Sung Na is a lush, soothing mindfulness picture book about finding solace in the natural world. With lyrical text and whimsical art, Wild Peace follows a girl whose imagination helps her escape her frenzied home and discover the joys of nature. After enjoying the serenity of the forest, she is finally ready to return to her family, where peace welcomes all that is wild, and kisses the forehead of every child. When the world fills with noise and fury, and the days pass, all rush and scurry, it's time to step into the forest . . .

Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141987138
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Peace of Wild Things written by Wendell Berry and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you stop and look around you, you'll start to see. Tall marigolds darkening. A spring wind blowing. The woods awake with sound. On the wooden porch, your love smiling. Dew-wet red berries in a cup. On the hills, the beginnings of green, clover and grass to be pasture. The fowls singing and then settling for the night. Bright, silent, thousands of stars. You come into the peace of simple things. From the author of the 'compelling' and 'luminous' essays of The World-Ending Fire comes a slim volume of poems. Tender and intimate, these are consoling songs of hope and of healing; short, simple meditations on love, death, friendship, memory and belonging. They celebrate and elevate what is sensuous about life, and invite us to pause and appreciate what is good in life, to stop and savour our fleeting moments of earthly enjoyment. And, when fear for the future keeps us awake at night, to come into the peace of wild things.

Author : Carl Safina
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250173345
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Wild written by Carl Safina and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 "In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way of looking at the natural world that is radically different."—The Washington Post New York Times bestselling author Carl Safina brings readers close to three non-human cultures—what they do, why they do it, and how life is for them. A New York Times Notable Books of 2020 Some believe that culture is strictly a human phenomenon. But this book reveals cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth’s remaining wild places. It shows how if you’re a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too come to understand yourself as an individual within a particular community that does things in specific ways, that has traditions. Alongside genes, culture is a second form of inheritance, passed through generations as pools of learned knowledge. As situations change, social learning—culture—allows behaviors to adjust much faster than genes can adapt. Becoming Wild brings readers into intimate proximity with various nonhuman individuals in their free-living communities. It presents a revelatory account of how animals function beyond our usual view. Safina shows that for non-humans and humans alike, culture comprises the answers to the question, “How do we live here?” It unites individuals within a group identity. But cultural groups often seek to avoid, or even be hostile toward, other factions. By showing that this is true across species, Safina illuminates why human cultural tensions remain maddeningly intractable despite the arbitrariness of many of our differences. Becoming Wild takes readers behind the curtain of life on Earth, to witness from a new vantage point the most world-saving of perceptions: how we are all connected.

Author : Ross L. Andrews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Peace written by Ross L. Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ruth Baetz
Publisher : Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9781568381879
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Communion written by Ruth Baetz and published by Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With examples of the author's own moving experiences, as well as ingenious suggestions for finding quiet natural settings in which to commune with nature close to home, this book is designed to help readers to create a stronger bond with their spiritual source.

Author : A. Dana Weber
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299323501
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes written by A. Dana Weber and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first academic book-length study devoted to Karl May festivals, a specific type of Wild-West-themed festivals that take place in Germany every summer, Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes introduces readers to a performance world that is popular at home yet virtually unknown elsewhere. Named for Karl May (1842-1912), arguably the most famous German writer of adventure fiction in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these thirteen or so festivals dramatize the exploits of May's most famous Wild West heroes, the Mescalero Apache Winnetou and his blood-brother, the German frontiersman Old Shatterhand, in entertaining theatre plays that use horses, other animals, stunts, and special effects on outdoors stages built specifically for them. Based on ethnographic studies of six of these events, Weber explores the most fundamental features of Karl May festivals: their "Indian" iconographies, fraternity narratives, hybrid genre form, borrowings from U.S. Wild West shows, and performative diversity. Her narrative accounts of these festivals and their interdisciplinary analysis based on German literature and culture studies, folklore, ethnography, and performance studies, theatre studies, and history guide readers through a specifically German performance world that is not an upshot of the American western, but a homegrown, traditional German version that evolved parallel with it. The composite image of Karl May festivals that emerges in the course of Weber's analysis is that of a unique type of popular event that expresses a deep yearning in German society, that for egalitarian and respectful cross-cultural interactions.

Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458758028
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry written by Wendell Berry and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich volume reflects the development of Berry's poetic sensibility. ''the Selected Poems of Wendell Berry makes available cartloads and heaps of clear and fluent work from Berry's fourteen books of poetry and four decades of writing, closely documenting the inner and the visible lives Berry sees and feels in agriculture and in nature.''

Author : Cindy Ross
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9781680513035
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking Toward Peace: Veterans Healing on America's Trails written by Cindy Ross and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring narrative about finding purpose in the outdoors, healing in nature, and hope for veterans

Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307476863
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into the Wild written by Jon Krakauer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die. "It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Not long after, he was dead. Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding—and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.

Author : Ali Winter
Publisher : Lantana Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1913747034
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peace and Me written by Ali Winter and published by Lantana Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does peace mean to you? This collection of inspirational ideas about peace is based on the lives of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates of the 20th and 21st centuries, among them Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa and Malala Yousafzai. A must for anyone interested in exploring this essential issue of our times, this child-friendly exploration of what peace means to you and me is a book for every bookshelf.