Deep Down Things: The Earth in Celebration and Dismay

Deep Down Things: The Earth in Celebration and Dismay

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Beloved and critically acclaimed author Lin Jensen returns with this bounteous volume exploring what the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins calls �deep down things.” Richly informed by deep ecology, Lin’s writing explores our intimate connection to the land, to the specificities of place, and to the living earth itself—all as Lin uncovers our own deepest nature, the true heart of...more
Paperback, 176 pages
Published September 14th 2010 by Wisdom Publications (first published May 10th 2010)
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Barry Graham
I am going to give this book to someone I love. In telling you this, I am telling you as best I can the effect of this book, but I suppose I ought to say more...

Lin Jensen produces books of quiet magnificence, and this is his best so far. He is so difficult to describe that reviewers commonly and forgiveably cop out by comparing him to other writers - Thoreau, Steinbeck, Dillard - but he really has created a genre that's entirely his own. Each book is so different from the others as to startle t...more
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Deep Down Things (Kindle Edition)
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