Earth and All the Stars: Reconnecting With Nature Through Hymns, Stories, Poems, and Prayers from the World's Great Religions and Cultures - Softcover

Anne W. Rowthorn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 157731106X ISBN 13: 9781577311065

Publisher: New World Library, 2000

Synopsis

Drawn from the world's great spiritual and religious traditions, this collection of prayers, hymns, poems, and meditations features the work of the Dalai Lama, thich Nhat Hahn, Ernesto Cardenal, endell Berry, Boris Pasternak, Albert Eignstein, and many others. Original.

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Review:

Drawing upon the religions of indigenous people, editor Anne Rowthorn has assembled an elegant anthology for readers who find their God in the natural world. For example, Albert Einstein reflects upon the prison humans create when they delude themselves into believing they are separate from nature and the universe. Zen monk Thich Nhat Hahn writes of breathing clean morning air in walking meditation. Chief Sealth (Seattle) explains how every part of the earth is sacred. Even a Northwest logger might think twice before taking a chainsaw to a tree upon reading environmentalist John Muir's sad and beautiful lament, "Any Fool Can Destroy Trees." And poet Diane Ackerman writes of the divine speaking to her "between the wingbeats of hummingbirds, when love smiles humbly at sunrise and in the evening rain." Page by page, prayer by prayer, word by word, these profound pieces of writing offer lifelong companionship for all who believe that God and nature are one and the same. --Gail Hudson

About the Author:

Anne Rowthorn is the author of "The Liberation of the Laity," "Caring for Creation," and "Earth and All the Stars: Reconnecting with Nature through Hymns, Stories, Poems, and Prayers." She has lived in many different parts of the globe, and taught courses in Ministry in Daily Life at Hartford Theological Seminary and Yale Divinity School.

About this edition

• Publisher: New World Library
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 157731106X
• ISBN 13: 9781577311065
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 330