The Abstract Wild
My friend, Tony from The Humanity Foundation introduced me to this unforgettable book. It is an eloquent manifesto for maintaining the wild, not as national parks or accessible wilderness so much as wild spaces beyond the control of humans. Wild for wild sake.
Turn: The Journal of an Artist
What a treat to discover this artist-writer and her turns and triumphs throughout a life of exploration, art, family, sculpture, education and expression.
On Walden Pond
What can I say? On Walden Pond is Thoreau’s anthem to a life lived in sync with the rhythms of the natural world. I keep it on my bedside table at my loft cottage. Tibetan Book of the Dead (Karma-glin-pa) Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, (Sogyal Rinpoche) THE books to read to understand death and dying – and thus life and living.
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times
The most phenomenal oral historian of this generation. Read everything he’s written. In Hope Dies Last he offers this ‘Hope never trickles down, it always springs up.’ Indeed.