Step into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (557 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1582705003 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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With useful examples, detailed packing lists, and stimulating prompts, this book will open you to the many creative influences that are right outside your door." (Camille T. Patrice Vecchione guide us into deeper, freer levels of imagination and creativity." (David George Haskell, author of The Forest Unseen, Pulitzer Prize finalist)"Patrice's sense of joy and spirit of inquiry inspire me to live in nature more and to honor the creativity often buried beneath the 'business' of life. Her writing is seamless as she navigates the depth of provocative insights about both n
She is also the editor of many highly acclaimed anthologies for children, young adults, and adults. She also teaches workshops outdoors through parks departments and recreation centers. . Vecchione has taught creative writing and collage workshops at universities, libraries, in community and spiritual centers, including Esalen Institute, and privately for over thirty
"Ms Vecchione has written a beautiful book that resonates with people on many different levels" according to A. Winterle. Ms Vecchione has written a beautiful book that resonates with people on many different levels and touches them in a very personal manner. She is a gifted writer and an excellent observer of both the natural world and the human emotional condition. In this book she links these together seamlessly. The book is a sensory feast. Sights, smells, colors, and sounds provide a backdrop, a stage, for the thoughts and feeling that accompany me as I walk in relative solitude through nature. Carry this book with you as you travel. Pick it up and put it down. Sit on a log in dappled light and savor it one pi. "A Sparkling Walk into Nature's Gifts" according to Marc Zegans. I’ve enjoyed reading, Step into Nature, Patrice Vecchione’s deliciously alert gathering of forays onto the trail, into leaves and light, rustle and hush so much that, when finished, I was more than reluctant to put it down. This book works on me as nature works on her, as an act of nurture, walking us on a series of small journeys, paralleling her own, never knowing what we will find at each turn of the line and the page. So many steps on these journeys, a page here, two there and questions that that lead us into surprising self discovery, small shocks of awareness and sparks of epip. QuietReader said funny, touching. If you need to step out of the rat race for 10 minutes and decompress, this is the book for you. Creative, funny, touching, real, Step Into Nature takes you out into the world of parks and trees and fresh air and mountains and trails and wild life and the inner workings of the human mind and heart, with a poet's deft hand, and an angel's touch. Patrice Vecchione manages to weave into this precious tome a life's experience, through the vehicle of word, observation, reflection, connection, and memory. You will feel as though you, too, have walked these walks, known these places, and will leave the
Nature is as close as opening your front door—and opening your heart to the sky above, the miniature gardens that push their way up between the sidewalk cracks in our cities, and the small stream just down the road.Patrice Vecchione demonstrates how nature can support and enhance your creative output, invigorate your curiosity, and restore your sense of connection to and love of the earth. From the author of Writing and the Spiritual Life comes a guide that will replenish your connection to the earth and inspire you to develop and strengthen your imagination.The natural world has inspired artists, seekers, and thinkers for millennia, but in recent times, as the pace of life has sped up, its demands have moved us indoors. Step outside your door and reconnect with nature. Yet nature’s capacity to lead us to important truths, to invigorate and restore our imagination and equilibrium, is infinite.Step into Nature makes nature personal again by stimulating awareness and increasin