Listen to the Silence: Lessons from Trees and Other Masters

by Jan Allegretti

Book Overview

Listen to the Silence is an open invitation to wander a forest path or sit beside a mountain creek, letting the beauty of nature wash over you. See the world with new eyes as you learn compassion from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595423817
• ISBN13: 9780595423811
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Meditation for Nature Lovers

Though now a beautifully produced paperback or hardcover, I first saw this book in its original photocopied form at least six years ago. The original was selling in a small organic restaurant in northern California Redwoods country, and there were already hundreds of loyal readers. (I pictured people discovering this book on their way to a camping trip in the redwoods, then reading aloud from it to their companions around a campfire that evening.) One of the lines I love from the book also describes how the writings call us to listen more carefully to nature: "Once in a while, there is a voice, so humanlike that I have to stop any other conversation and say, 'Wait,' and listen." One wonders--no, perhaps we know for certain--we would not be facing the challenges of global warming had we, in fact, stopped to listen to the silence. I recommend this book to any reader who seeks tranquility in nature.