Exploring a Sense of Place, How to create your own local program for reconnecting with Nature
Ask yourself these questions: On what day are the shadows shortest where you live? From what direction do winter storms arrive? I did, and the answers required some thought. And that's where Harwell and Reynolds' Exploring a Sense of Place steps in: to provide a tool "to create your own local program for reconnecting with nature," based on the successful model that the authors created in and around Palo Alto. Too often we're so caught up in our lives that, while we leave footprints outdoors, we're resistant to the outdoors leaving its footprints on us. Such natural imprinting is what the Sense of Place programs are all about. --Bay Nature MagazineWe are slowly recognizing that the failure to understand and revere place has unleashed a toxic assault on the conditions and communities of life that are the very umbilical cord to our own human existence. This recognition can not happen quickly enough, not only for our physical survival, but also for the survival of our human souls. Reawakening our inherent spiritual, psychological and bodily bonds to the Earth and place is now a necessity. This guide, Exploring a Sense of Place, is a remarkable inner and outer compass for helping any community anywhere rediscover the ground of its being and its roadmap to any future worth living. --Sister Miriam Therese MacGillisWe are finally learning that the fundamental experiences of the natural world are inherent necessities for us to reason clearly and shape a fulfilling course of human affairs. How to recover this elementary contact with the natural world is the subject of Exploring a Sense of Place. It is a wonderful example of the Great Work. --Thomas BerryWe are slowly recognizing that the failure to understand and revere place has unleashed a toxic assault on the conditions and communities of life that are the very umbilical cord to our own human existence. This recognition can not happen quickly enough, not only for our physical survival, but also for the survival of our human souls. Reawakening our inherent spiritual, psychological and bodily bonds to the Earth and place is now a necessity. This guide, Exploring a Sense of Place, is a remarkable inner and outer compass for helping any community anywhere rediscover the ground of its being and its roadmap to any future worth living. --Sister Miriam Therese MacGillisWe are finally learning that the fundamental experiences of the natural world are inherent necessities for us to reason clearly and shape a fulfilling course of human affairs. How to recover this elementary contact with the natural world is the subject of Exploring a Sense of Place. It is a wonderful example of the Great Work. --Thomas BerryWe are slowly recognizing that the failure to understand and revere place has unleashed a toxic assault on the conditions and communities of life that are the very umbilical cord to our own human existence. This recognition can not happen quickly enough, not only for our physical survival, but also for the survival of our human souls. Reawakening our inherent spiritual, psychological and bodily bonds to the Earth and place is now a necessity. This guide, Exploring a Sense of Place, is a remarkable inner and outer compass for helping any community anywhere rediscover the ground of its being and its roadmap to any future worth living. --Sister Miriam Therese MacGillisWe are finally learning that the fundamental experiences of the natural world are inherent necessities for us to reason clearly and shape a fulfilling course of human affairs. How to recover this elementary contact with the natural world is the subject of Exploring a Sense of Place. It is a wonderful example of the Great Work. --Thomas Berry