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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100190842679

ISBN-139780190842673

eBay Product ID (ePID)7038284061

Product Key Features

Book TitleGreat Conversation : Nature and the Care of the Soul

Number of Pages344 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2019

TopicGeneral, Religion & Science

IllustratorYes

GenreReligion

AuthorBelden C. Lane

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight21.6 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2019-301539

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"By combining memoir with the lives of saints and other spiritual figures, Lane provides a stimulating testament to the spiritual value of the natural world." -- Publishers Weekly "Belden Lane closes his magical book with a plea that we learn to listen to a planet under stress. This may be the most vital message of The Great Conversation." -- Foreward Reviews, Starred Review, "In this extraordinary book, Lane explores our human need for deep and meaningful connections with nature ... This is a precious book for all nature lovers and also for those who after reading it, will be." -- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice "By combining memoir with the lives of saints and other spiritual figures, Lane provides a stimulating testament to the spiritual value of the natural world." -- Publishers Weekly "Belden Lane closes his magical book with a plea that we learn to listen to a planet under stress. This may be the most vital message of The Great Conversation." -- Foreward Reviews, Starred Review, "In this extraordinary book, Lane explores our human need for deep and meaningful connections with nature ... This is a precious book for all nature lovers and also for those who after reading it, will be." -- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice"By combining memoir with the lives of saints and other spiritual figures, Lane provides a stimulating testament to the spiritual value of the natural world." -- Publishers Weekly"Belden Lane closes his magical book with a plea that we learn to listen to a planet under stress. This may be the most vital message of The Great Conversation." -- Foreward Reviews, Starred Review

Dewey Decimal201.77

Table Of ContentAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: Wilderness and Soul WorkPart I: Beginning to Listen1. Restoring the Great Conversation2. Falling in Love with a TreePart II: Nature Teachers and the Spiritual LifeAIR: The Child3. Birds: Sandhill Cranes, the Platte River, and Farid ud-Din Attar4. Wind: Buford Mountain and The Way of a Pilgrim5. Trees: A Cottonwood Tree in a City Park and Hildegard of BingenFIRE: The Adolescent6. Wildfire: North Laramie River Trail and Catherine of Siena7. Stars: Cahokia Mounds and Origen of Alexandria8. Deserts: The Western Australian Bush and Gregory of NyssaWATER: The Adult9. Rivers: Colorado's Lost Creek Wilderness and Teresa of Avila10. Canyons: Grand Staircase-Escalante Wilderness and Laozi11. Islands: Monhegan Island and Nikos KazantzakisEARTH: The Elder12. Mountains: Hemmed-In-Hollow and the Baal Shem Tov13. Caves: Lewis Cave and Ignatius of Loyola14. Wolves: Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and Francis of AssisiConclusion: Taking the Great Conversation SeriouslyAfterwordNotesIndex

Synopsis"We are surrounded by a world that talks, but we don't listen. We are part of a community engaged in a vast conversation, but we deny our role in it." In the face of climate change, species loss, and vast environmental destruction, the ability to stand in the flow of the great conversation of all creatures and the earth can feel utterly lost to the human race. But Belden C. Lane suggests that it can and must be recovered, not only for the sake of endangered species and the well-being of at-risk communities, but for the survival of the world itself. The Great Conversation is Lane's multi-faceted treatise on a spiritually centered environmentalism. At the core is a belief in the power of the natural world to act as teacher. In a series of personal anecdotes, Lane pairs his own experiences in the wild with the writings of saints and sages from a wide range of religious traditions. A night in a Missourian cave brings to mind the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola; the canyons of southern Utah elicit a response from the Chinese philosopher Laozi; 500,000 migrating sandhill cranes rest in Nebraska and evoke the Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar. With each chapter, the humility of spiritual masters through the ages melds with the author's encounters with natural teachers to offer guidance for entering once more into a conversation with the world., In the face of climate change, species loss, and vast environmental destruction, Belden C. Lane's spiritually centered environmentalism suggests that we must look to teachers in nature to understand how to save ourselves. Pairing anecdotes of personal encounters with nature with the teachings of spiritual leaders from a range of religious traditions, this book invites us to participate once more in the great conversation among all creatures and the earth itself., "We are surrounded by a world that talks, but we don't listen. We are part of a community engaged in a vast conversation, but we deny our role in it."In the face of climate change, species loss, and vast environmental destruction, the ability to stand in the flow of the great conversation of all creatures and the earth can feel utterly lost to the human race. But Belden C. Lane suggests that it can and must be recovered, not only for the sake of endangered species and the well-being of at-risk communities, but for the survival of the world itself. The Great Conversation is Lane's multi-faceted treatise on a spiritually centered environmentalism. At the core is a belief in the power of the natural world to act as teacher. In a series of personal anecdotes, Lane pairs his own experiences in the wild with the writings of saints and sages from a wide range of religious traditions. A night in a Missourian cave brings to mind the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola; the canyons of southern Utah elicit a response from the Chinese philosopher Laozi; 500,000 migrating sandhill cranes rest in Nebraska and evoke the Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar. With each chapter, the humility of spiritual masters through the ages melds with the author's encounters with natural teachers to offer guidance for entering once more into a conversation with the world.

LC Classification NumberBL65.N35L36 2019