Editor Chris Highland pairs 60 insightful Muir quotes with selections from other celebrated thinkers and spiritual texts. Take this pocket-size guide with you on backpacks, nature hikes, and camping trips.

Meditations of John Muir: Nature's Temple

Highland, Chris

Sports & Outdoors

Wilderness Press

A selection of 60 thoughtful Thoreau quotations and placed them alongside the wisdom words of writers, philosopohers, and teachers from around the world. Bound in a lovely and compact format, the book totes easily along in your pocket, backpack, or picnic basket. Solitude never felt so cozy.

Meditations of Henry David Thoreau: A Light in the Woods (Nature's Inspiration)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

A pocket-sized compendium of passages from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grasspaired with the relevant words of a variety of historical and contemporary thinkers, such as Margaret Fuller, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jane Goodall, Mark Twain, Marc Chagall, Helen Keller, Buddha, Dante, and Bhagavad Gita

Meditations of Walt Whitman: Earth, My Likeness (Nature's Inspiration)

Religion & Spirituality

A compilation of sixty insightful reflections from Margaret Fuller, the brilliant woman of letters from Massachusetts who was a colleague and friend of Emerson, editor of Thoreau and mother of the women's movement in America. This is the fifth book in the popular series by Chris Highland that includes Muir, Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman and Burroughs. Though she lived to only forty years of age, Fuller left a vast number of letters, poems, articles and books to inspire and challenge the reader. The editor draws upon his research as well as years as an interfaith chaplain and student of Nature to lift up the brightest of Fuller's spiritual side. 'I wish my lot had been cast amid the sources of the streams, where the voice of the hidden torrent is heard by night, where the eagle soars . . . .' With selections placed alongside quotations from an incredible diversity of thinkers and sprinkled with crisp black and white photographs, this book adds an essential, wise and soaring voice to the series.

Meditations of Margaret Fuller: The Inner Stream

History

Americas

BookSurge Publishing

A compilation of sixty insightful reflections from John Burroughs, the great naturalist from New York whose friends included Walt Whitman, John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. This is the sixth book in the popular series by Chris Highland that includes Muir, Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman and Fuller. The editor draws upon years as an interfaith chaplain and student of Nature to highlight the best of Burroughs' spiritual side. Drawing from Burroughs' many books, this collection presents his close observation of wild Nature in an easy daily-reading format. Burroughs was a radical lover of the cosmos who saw that 'the earth is divine, and . . . God is everywhere.' His creed was 'not even a faith; it is a love, an enthusiasm, a consecration to natural truth.' With selections placed alongside quotations from an incredible diversity of thinkers and sprinkled with crisp black and white photographs, this work takes an essential place in this series packed with wisdom for the path.

Meditations of John Burroughs: Nature is Home

JOHN MUIR’S exuberance for nature was the touchstone for his commitment to the earth and all its creatures. As naturalist, writer, and activist, Muir shaped the spiritual and physical boundaries of some of our most treasured national parks. 
Editor Chris Highland pairs 60 insightful Muir quotes with selections from other celebrated thinkers and spiritual texts. Take this pocket-size guide with you on backpacks, nature hikes, and camping trips. Let Muir’s words enrich your experience as you ponder the wilderness from river bank, mountain top, or as you relax beside your campfire under night stars.

Meditations of John Muir: Nature's Temple (Nature's Inspiration)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

Could a freethinking secular humanist who is happily married to a Protestant minister have anything helpful to say to the rest of us about building community in a world divided by beliefs? The answer is a resounding Yes, and Chris Highland has done just that in his latest book, Broken Bridges. With true stories from his years as a chaplain in jails and shelters, he reflects on the wisdom of the "unheard" as well as insights from well-known voices like Frederick Douglass and the Dalai Lama. Broken Bridges is an invitation to wider thinking for secular people and for those who still believe. With a sometimes pointed but never a mean-spirited or anti-religious tone, this book intentionally presents hints but not "how-to" toward repairing, rebuilding, or even replacing old structures of belief that stand in the way of true progressive reform. Think what we could build together beyond belief

Broken Bridges: Building Community in a World Divided by Beliefs

Christian Books & Bibles

Insighting Growth Publications Inc.

A Freethinker’s Gospel is a collection of columns by Chris Highland, first published in the Asheville Citizen-Times from 2016-17. A former Protestant minister and prison chaplain, Highland is now a secular “freethinker” who muses on the natural world, on being a non-believer in a highly religious society, and the commonalities shared between religions.
This compilation of essays offers his reflections on interfaith work, the search for self-discovery, and the commonalities that bind us regardless of social, political, economic, or religious backgrounds. His insights about the marvelous structure of our natural world and what nature can teach us, and the way our society is structured, addressing humanism, the natural world, and sensitive issues of faith, are enlightening and challenging.
Chris Highland was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and lived for over 35 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was a Protestant minister and Interfaith chaplain for many years before becoming a Humanist celebrant.
With a degree in Religion and Philosophy from an evangelical Christian university (Seattle Pacific) and a Master of Divinity degree from a diverse consortium of seminaries (Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley), he has been active in “presence ministry” and nonprofit work in a private school, a county jail, homeless shelters, and affordable housing.
He is the author of ten books including Meditations of John Muir, My Address is a River, Life After Faith, the novella Jesus and John Muir, as well as an essay collection, Nature is Enough. He has taught courses on Nature Literature and Freethought in California and North Carolina.
Chris blogs at Secular Chaplain. As a member of The Clergy Project, he contributes to Rational Doubt on Patheos. Seeking wider connections, he also holds membership in the American Humanist Association, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the Religious Naturalist Association, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

A Freethinker's Gospel: Essays for a Sacred Secular World

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Pisgah Press LLC

Breath, Death and Koheleth: A New, Secular Reading of Ecclesiastes

Religious Studies

Independently published

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Meditations of John Muir: Nature's Temple

Meditations of Henry David Thoreau: A Light in the Woods (Nature's Inspiration)

Meditations of Walt Whitman: Earth, My Likeness (Nature's Inspiration)

Meditations of Margaret Fuller: The Inner Stream

Meditations of John Burroughs: Nature is Home

Meditations of John Muir: Nature's Temple (Nature's Inspiration)

Meditations of Henry David Thoreau: A Light in the Woods (Nature's Inspiration)

Broken Bridges: Building Community in a World Divided by Beliefs

A Freethinker's Gospel: Essays for a Sacred Secular World

Breath, Death and Koheleth: A New, Secular Reading of Ecclesiastes