Terry Tempest Williams presents a sharp-edged perspective on the ethics and politics of place, spiritual democracy, and the responsibilities of citizen engagement. By turns elegiac, inspiring, and passionate, The Open Space of Democracy offers a fresh perspective on the critical questions of our time.

The Open Space of Democracy

Politics & Social Sciences

Terry Tempest Williams

Philosophy

The Orion Society

A new art form has evolved in the pages of Orion over the last thirty years. Call it the literature of ecological urgency. No longer content to settle for diminutive steps that don't add up, the authors in this collection are calling for paradigmatic change. Tackling such subjects as corporatism, consumerism, toxic chemicals, even environmentalism itself, these pieces share a common message: if our culture fails to adequately address the challenges of our age, things could get very bad for people and for nature. The Orion essays collected here are not just a call to action, but a call to bold and brave action commensurate with the level of transformation that is required of humanity at this moment in time.

Change Everything Now

Winona LaDuke

James Gustave Speth

James Howard Kunstler

Rebecca Solnit

bill-mckibben

Sandra Steingraber

Derrick Jensen

Jeffrey Kaplan

Janisse Ray

Curtis White

Is wonder really a survival skill? Between the urgency of the problems facing our planet and the chaos of our own busy lives, it might seem naive to place "cultivate wonder" at the top of a list of priorities. Yet that is exactly what the authors in this collection suggest: that wonder is necessary, that it might just be what saves us. Readers have long turned to Orion to be reminded of the things that really matter, to build their inner reserves, and to rekindle their sense of intimacy with the earth. The essays collected here are testaments to the power of beauty and the importance of humility-and a deep belief, even amid darkness and uncertainty, in wonder's essential role in our lives.

Wonder and Other Survival Skills

Brian Doyle

Anthony Doerr

Scott Russell Sanders

Rick Bass

Ann Zwinger

Amy Leach

DIANE ACKERMAN

Susanne Antonetta

DAVID GESSNER

Michael P. Branch

John Calderazzo

Chris Dombrowski

Aleria Jensen

Teddy Macker

Georgian Valoyce-Sanchez

Nearly every environmental change-maker in history was shaped by a strong connection to the particular place or landscape he or she called home. But many children today are glued to screens or stuck prepping for another standardized exam, while nature education and unstructured time outdoors have fallen by the wayside. If children are not given opportunities to connect with the natural world, who will be the stewards of the future? The authors featured in this collection are part of a movement that proposes a radical reconnection of children and nature through education. By nurturing this connection, they argue, we build a society of better citizens-citizens empowered to fight for the places and communities they have come to love.

Leave No Child Inside (English and Italian Edition)

David Sobel

Brenda Peterson

Richard Louv

Anne Valley-Fox

John Elder

Robert Michael Pyle

Medicine Grizzlybear Lake

Lowell Monke

Erik Reece

Belle Boggs

Elise Rymer

Stephen Talbott

Perhaps nothing illuminates the complexity of our relationship to the natural world better than the relationship between people and animals: we wonder at them, use them, adore them, mourn them, protect them, cause them suffering. The essays collected here explore these contradicitons in all their difficulty, but they also celebrate our connection to the animal world and provide a model for how we might respect and revere our fellow animals more deeply. As Pattiann Rogers writes, "For how can we possess dignity if we allow them no dignity? Who will recognize our beauty if we do not revel in their beauty?...How can we believe in grace if we cannot bestow grace?"

Animals & People

Mary Oliver

Craig Childs

Pattiann Rogers

Sy Montgomery

Christopher Ketcham

J.B. MacKinnon

Lisa Couturier

Kathleen Jamie

What does it mean to eat with grace? The writers whose essays and poems are collected here have many answers, but they all come back to something essential: connection-with each other, with our inner selves, with the earth that sustains us. Whether foraging, baking, or gardening, digging their hands into the soil of their backyards or being seduced by the exotic fruits of a far-off place, these writers praise the sensuous and spiritual ways that our food can nourish us. As Darra Goldstein writes in her forward, "When we eat good food, we smell and taste the earth, and thereby reconnect with it: this is what it means to eat with grace."

To Eat with Grace

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Gary Paul Nabhan

Jane Hirshfield

Tamar Adler

Barbara Baer

Tamara Dean

Maxine Kumin

Laurie Kutchins

Robin MacArthur

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Deborah Slicer

Joni Tevis

Katrina Vandenberg

Allison Wallace

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