Nature Calls

                           Nature Calls



  "The urgency and global scale of the challenges we are facing. We need people to fall in love with the wild again, even those they will never visit.
The grand-style used by Muir and Thoreau and newer writers like David Abram and Mary Oliver go beyond description and persuasion. They plumb the depths of language to compose nature on the page.They use word-pictures to paint its essence in the mind of the reader, and to insight awe.
Writers who are drawn to this genre have the challenge of moving and inspiring the reader, to reawaken the reader to their higher selves— the Self, or spirit, that is itself nature.
Touching the spirit and renewing the readers’ deep connection with nature moves them to act for conservation, protection, and sustainability. This is what the Earth calls nature writers to do now, more than any other moment in history".

This is the call that I hear. Will you join me?
























































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