Epicurean Simplicity

by Stephanie Mills

Book Overview

"In this book, I relate the pleasures, as well as the virtues and difficulties of a perhaps simpler than average North American life." So begins ecological thinker and writer Stephanie Mills's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559636890
• ISBN13: 9781559636896
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

An alternative way to live

The enlightenment project, dualistic thinking, and industrial science are destroying the planet and seem likely to destroy the human species unless we change direction. This beautifully written book provides a viable alternative. Highly recommended.

Deftly examines the classic sources of enduring joy

Epicurean Simplicity by ecologist and writer Stephanie Mills offers thoughtful and thought-provoking insights into the frantically driven, technology-immersed, increasingly complicated society of our "modern age". Stephanie Mills' suggests that the antidote to these contemporary urban pressures is to simply slow down, use less, and live modestly. Epicurean Simplicity deftly examines the classic sources of enduring joy, such as good food, good friends, and the wonders of nature. Epicurean Simplicity is a deftly written, reader inspiring, and personally uplifting testimony of how to live well in today's fast-paced world.