Green reading selections for Earth Day

Happy Earth Day! In honor of this occasion, we offer the following green reading selections:

Earth Works
Selected Essays
Scott Russell Sanders
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"Collectively, these essays invite the reader to gaze more clearly at the world outside his own window—a reminder, as Sanders puts it, that all there is to see 'can be seen from anywhere in the universe, if you know how to look... " —The Barnes & Noble Review

A Conservationist Manifesto
Scott Russell Sanders
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"Insightful essays . . . original and intriguing. . . . Sanders offers a 40-point Conservationist Manifesto, which, in its thoroughness, thoughtfulness and inclusion of environmental justice issues would serve the environmentalist community well." —Publishers Weekly

The Land, the People
Rachel Peden
Drawings by Sidonie Coryn
Foreword by Nancy R. Hiller
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"Ms. Peden's writings remind us that we have not only survived the challenges and fed upon the beauty of the land, but we have thrived as a people by drawing strength from our humble country roots." —Farm and Dairy Magazine

Rural Free
A Farmwife's Almanac of Country Living
Rachel Peden
Drawings by Sidonie Coryn
Foreword by Jennifer Meta Robinson
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"To all who care about nature and the changing seasons, reading it will be a satisfying experience." —Harper's Magazine

Speak to the Earth
Pages from a Farmwife's Journal
Rachel Peden
Foreword by Scott Russell Sanders
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"The insightful forward by Scott Russell Sanders and inviting drawings by Sidonie Coryn are lovely companions for this collection of brief essays. It is best savored slowly, read aloud in companionship with another or alone, for the sheer pleasure of hearing voice give flight to well-crafted prose." —NUVO