Introduction
The book’s themes grew out of the author’s experience with a cottonwood tree he calls Grandfather. As the pattern unfolds in the chapters, he shows how twelve teachers in the natural world might be used as spiritual guides through the four stages of one’s life—as child, adolescent, adult, and elder. These teachers are now facing an overwhelming threat—due to climate change, habitat destruction, the use of pesticides and herbicides. They call us to a celebration of all that still lives—and to a language of lament that gives birth to action. The author reminds readers that we’re part of a community engaged in a vast conversation, but we deny our role in it. The earth yearns to teach us languages we didn’t even know existed.
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2015 ◽
Vol 61
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pp. 1-12
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2016 ◽
Vol 34
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pp. 211-231
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