Crossing Higher Ground: : Poetry from the Mountaintops

These are the stories that mountains tell. Discover the powerful messages from the poetry of the mountaintops. This is the second book in the series.

Are you ready to experience your view from the mountaintops? Would you like to encounter the freshness of the air, the vastness of the horizon, and the infinite silence that attends the high points? Rick Van de Poll is an accomplished ecologist, science writer, and poet who has felt the world fall away from beneath his feet for a moment.

He has witnessed as well as experienced the trials and tribulations of getting to the top of the mountains. Fifty years of wandering has yielded many a lesson from the ascent of high peaks and brought with it a perspective on humankind that would otherwise be missing from his life.

Crossing Higher Ground: Poetry from the Mountaintops
is a sensitive and beautiful illustrated nature poetry book journaling the author’s experiences.

In Crossing Higher Ground you’ll discover:

• How mountains become our teacher
• How they force us to look beyond ourselves
• How they remind us to not take life for granted
• How they hold the secrets in their bones
• And why they give up those secrets slowly, carefully, and intentionally

Crossing Higher Ground will show you the mountaintop’s accounting of the passage of time and how they bear witness to every chapter of Earth’s history, and as such forces us to reflect upon the chapter that we as a species are living in today.

Get Crossing Higher Ground to experience life’s journey from the mountaintops.

Dr. Van de Poll enters the field of poetry writing as an experienced ecologist and seasoned science writer. While he has authored and co-authored a number of technical works on the science of nature, this book is his first foray into poetry writing. He comes with a keen eye for the natural world, wherein his first-hand experiences across Central and North America and Europe has provided him with a wealth of knowledge about flora, fauna, and the nature of diverse ecosystems. With degrees in Outdoor Education, Mycology, Environmental Communication and Natural Resource Management, Rick has taught at the undergraduate and graduate level for over thirty years and has offered hundreds of workshops, seminars and classes in a large number of natural resource topics. As an environmental science consultant, he has worked in all parts of North America and selected locales in Mexico and Italy. He has undertaken and completed comprehensive ecological inventories of over 300,000 acres in 85 towns in New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York. He currently is the Principal of Ecosystem Management Consultants and can be reached at rickvandepoll.com