The beloved author of Refuge returns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebratesTerry Tempest Williams’s mother told her: “I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won’t look at them until after I’m gone.”Readers of Williams’s iconic and unconventional memoir, Refuge, well remember that mother. She was one of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah who developed cancer as a result of the nuclear testing in nearby Nevada. It was a shock to Williams to discover that her mother had kept journals. But not as much of a shock as what she found when the time came to read them.  “They were exactly where she said they would be: three shelves of beautiful cloth-bound books . . . I opened the first journal. It was empty. I opened the second journal. It was empty. I opened the third. It too was empty . . . Shelf after shelf after shelf, all of my mother’s journals were blank.” What did Williams’s mother mean by that? In fifty-four chapters that unfold like a series of yoga poses, each with its own logic and beauty, Williams creates a lyrical and caring meditation of the mystery of her mother's journals. When Women Were Birds is a kaleidoscope that keeps turning around the question “What does it mean to have a voice?” 

Product Description: Listen to an audio sample online in MP4 format—click here. In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. During the two years and two months he spent there, he began to write Walden, a chronicle of his communion with nature that became one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature...read more

Product Description: When faced with the chaos of our times and tragedy in her own life, Terry Tempest Williams asked: How do we pick up the pieces? And what do we do with these pieces? To find her answer, this visionary author and naturalist embarked on a journey that took her around the globe...read more

Product Description: Debra Bloomfield's hypnotic photographs provide a visual map of the powerful interplay between sea and sky. Over theyears, on a single lonesome stretch of beach, Bloomfield has captured an undeniably intimate portrait of the ocean at rest...read more

Product Description: A Voice for Earth is a collection of poems, essays, and stories that together give a voice to the ethical principles outlined in the Earth Charter. The Earth Charter was adopted in the year 2000 with the mission of addressing the economic, social, political, spiritual, and environmental problems confronting the world in the twenty-first century...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

The naturalist and acclaimed author of Refuge celebrates her long-time love affair with the desert country of the American Southwest in lyrical essays that capture the beauty and power of the desert environment and eloquently evoke her fierce commitment to protect the fragile environment from human destruction. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Terrorism. Homeland Security. Patriotism. Since September 11, 2001, these terms have emerged as a fundamental part of our cultural lexicon, with their unsaid assumptions and attendant emotions being used to inspire and buttress a varied set of cultural, political, and military responses to the events of that day...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Emmet Gowin has been taking aerial photographs of the landscape in the United States, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, Asia and the Middle East for over 20 years. In his most compelling photographs, one witnesses how man's footprint has visually scarred and continually altered the earth's surface...read more

Product Description: Translucent bells, glittering boxes, luminous chains, gossamer webs...these intricate, pulsing beings from a fairy-tale world dazzle and beguile. From microscopic tinkerbells to golden giants larger than beach umbrellas, you couldn't dream of more exotic jellies than already exist...read more

The author of Refuge explores the beautiful, enigmatic landscape created by Hieronymus Bosch in The Garden of Delights, in a study that uncovers the spiritual and personal links between the great masterpiece and her own life. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

The author describes her Mormon upbringing, juxtaposing these reminiscences with discussions of the flooding of a wildlife bird sanctuary and its effect on that ecosystem, and her family's legacy of cancer

Product Description: In eloquent language and stories, members of the LDS faith relate personal experiences with the natural world. Drawing on scripture and Mormon tradition, they tell of peacefull times and of times in nature that changed their lives, as well as current conflicts over the use of public lands in the West...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Katie Lee’s "All My Rivers Are Gone" is a unique book. It is a journal filled with strong emotions about a wondrous place on the American landscape. Her entries tell the sad saga of the decision to flood Glen Canyon on the Colorado River...read more

Product Description: In Waste Land, photographer David T. Hanson presents a picture of our environment that is unfamiliar and deeply disturbing. It is, however, a picture that must be looked at and contended with if our environment is to survive. In the words of the writer Wendell Berry, Hanson has "given us the topography of our open wounds...read more

Product Description: A collection of nine audio essays by naturalists from all walks of life exploring the diversity, beauty and fragility of our planet.

Distinguished writers, including John McPhee, Barry Lopez, William Kittredge, Ann Zwinger, and Mark Strand, speak out on the necessity to protect and preserve America's wilderness habitats in the face of assaults on government-protected lands by miners, developers, and other industries. Original. IP.

Combines the author's experiences as a woman, a Westerner, and a Mormon, applying them to her theories about the importance of wilderness conservation and the inseparable link between the earth and the human spirit. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. Tour. NYT.

An inspirational journey follows the experiences of a woman as she embraces the four elements--earth, fire, water, and air--in a desert landscape setting and, along the way, comes to terms with her past, body, and self. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

Product Description: This program evokes the beauty and mystery of southern Utah's desert canyons--home to the Navajo and to the Anasazi who came before, and spiritual homeland to the Coyote clan. 2 cassettes.

A celebration of timeless beauty of the desert canyons of southern Utah offers a meditation on the desert landscape and the legend and ritual surrounding it

Product Description: This unusual book is an introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller. Steeped in the lore of the Navajo reservation, where she worked as a teacher, the author came to see Navajo legend and ritual as touchstones for evaluating her own experience...read more