Natural Prayers

by Chet Raymo

Book Overview

A scientist with a love for the natural world discusses his spiritual journeyof relearning how to pray by watching attentively for the light that burns atthe center of life to find the extraordinary... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886913293
• ISBN13: 9781886913295
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Ruminator Books
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

An incredible book

I took my time to carefully read each chapter of this book and plan to purchase it in the future (I found it at my local library). Raymo is a gifted writer who makes science and nature approachable and awesome at the same time. For those of you who prefer a rational (non-religious) approach to appreciating nature, you will love this book. If you are from or just enjoy the New England area, this book has much to explain about the region. Broken down into moon cycles, earth 'holidays' and cross-quarter days, each section takes you on a journey into the natural world.

Awesome and Gentle.

How does he get science to sound beautiful? To me Natural Prayers is a science book, but in the way children like science. Through the senses. A mindful book, Chet Raymo takes natural science and important literary contibutions and comfortably delivers a number of short, easy to read discussions, for us to absorb effortlessly. This is a book I will keep at hand.

Nature/science writing at its best.

Possibly the best yet of Raymo's wonderful expositions on the natural world. He waxes as poetic as Annie Dillard on the mystical quality of nature, but as a scientist by trade, also includes Lewis Thomas-like passages that could slip into a mini-science-textbook; thoughtful, beguiling commentary and questions on the cosmos and our place in it. Superb! Leaves this reader craving for more.