Thornton James

Nature, My Teacher (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"Captivating, mesmerising, and manages to capture so beautifully our true relationship with the natural world." ~ Ben Goldsmith

James Thornton is a lawyer whose client is the Earth. He visits his client. It speaks to him. In Nature, My Teacher he passes on some of those teachings.

Presented in twelve books, each a sequence of intimate essays, James investigates the nature of human consciousness. What is memory? How do you summon compassion? How do we care for ourselves? Answers reveal themselves all around us.

As a Zen priest, James knows that people are part of the natural world. It impacts us with its beauty, and we quake when it is hurt. This book ripples with that beauty, and also gazes steadily at climate anxiety. James is clear-sighted. We are right to be troubled by ecological collapse, but there are ways to save ourselves and save the world.

This is a fierce and tender study of how to be alive in a world that is under threat.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barbican Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781909954946
• Artikelnr.: 68520135

Autorenporträt

James Thornton is a poet, Zen Buddhist priest, and founder and president of ClientEarth, the leading global not-for-profit law group. As a lawyer, with the Earth as his client, James sees that 'Nature speaks in the grammar of science'. He is a Conservation Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society. The New Statesman named him one of 10 people who could change the world. Irish-American, born in New York, James is also the author of Client Earth (Scribe 2018), co-authored with his husband Martin Goodman, which received the Judges' Selection, Business Book of the Year Award 2018, and the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature from Santa Monica Public Library. He has twice won Leader of the Year at the Business Green Awards. For his legal work, The Financial Times awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award. His writing includes two novels, a book of spiritual practice, and three volumes of poetry. He was a judge for the 2020 Laurel Awards for Ecopoetry. He lives in London and Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
15
The Book of Nature
16
The Book of Self and Other
44
The Book of Memory
62
The Book of Questions
80
The Book of Mind
98
The Book of Millions of Years
114
The Book of Compassion Arising
128
The Book of the Warming Earth
144
The Book of Anxiety
160
The Book of Unapologetic Rest
184
The Book of Simple Wants
196
The Book of Things I Need to Remember
210
Endnotes
229
Acknowledgments
231