Nature is My Teacher - James Kevin Thornton

Nature is My Teacher

How to be Alive in a World under Threat
Buch | Hardcover
232 Seiten
2024
Barbican Press (Verlag)
978-1-909954-93-9 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
“Make this book your friend,” says Arianna Huffington. James Thornton’s Nature, My Teacher, is a powerful guide to being human in a time of eco-crisis.

In Nature, My Teacher, poet, lawyer and founder of top global environmental group ClientEarth, James Thornton offers a meditation on being alive while the planet fights to survive. He explores topics such as memory, climate anxiety, and human consciousness through a series of short essays, arranged into twelve “books”, each closing with a poem and a photo to leave readers in a reflective space.

As a Zen priest from Los Angeles, James contemplates what he has learnt from observing and listening to nature, and shows that when the planet is hurting, we too feel its pain.

The way this book is opening hearts and minds is remarkable. Arianna Huffington found it “powerful and moving”, Zen abbot and author Joan Halifax sums: “A profound guide to discovering the great wisdom in the natural world, this book…is a treasure for all”.

James Thornton is a poet, Zen Buddhist priest, and founder and president of ClientEarth, the leading global not-for-profit law group. As a lawyer, with the Earth as his client, James sees that 'Nature speaks in the grammar of science’. He is a Conservation Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society. The New Statesman named him one of 10 people who could change the world. Irish-American, born in New York, James is also the author of Client Earth (Scribe 2018), co-authored with his husband Martin Goodman, which received the Judges’ Selection, Business Book of the Year Award 2018, and the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature from Santa Monica Public Library. He has twice won Leader of the Year at the Business Green Awards. For his legal work, The Financial Times awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award. His writing includes two novels, a book of spiritual practice, and three volumes of poetry. He was a judge for the 2020 Laurel Awards for Ecopoetry. He lives in London and Los Angeles.

Introduction
15


The Book of Nature
16


The Book of Self and Other
44


The Book of Memory
62


The Book of Questions
80


The Book of Mind
98


The Book of Millions of Years
114


The Book of Compassion Arising
128


The Book of the Warming Earth
144


The Book of Anxiety
160


The Book of Unapologetic Rest
184


The Book of Simple Wants
196


The Book of Things I Need to Remember
210


Endnotes
229


Acknowledgments
231

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Illustrations, unspecified
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Anthologien
Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
ISBN-10 1-909954-93-4 / 1909954934
ISBN-13 978-1-909954-93-9 / 9781909954939
Zustand Neuware
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