Love Letters from Mother Nature By 1992, Shelley Neller had had enough of living and working in big cities. She took the leap, left her pressured city career in public relations and moved to Byron Bay, Australia's most easterly ecotopia. Love Letters from Mother Nature, A Meditative Journey is a wise and witty distillation of the introspection, the reading and the meditation on her back-to-nature experience. Neller spent time in the natural world, watched her garden grow, read widely and developed a fresh interpretation of life, guided by an openness to the landscape, the light, the weather and the creatures around her. Her precise and beautifully written accounts of the natural environment, landscape, birds and her own garden convey the mysticism of her experience, without being vague or flaky. Once she realised that the poets were right -- the whole world can be revealed in a grain of sand or in a wildflower, if you give them your proper attention -- Neller found herself the unexpected scribe for Mother Nature, that wisewoman storyteller of the great cycles of life. Mother Nature speaks through Neller in a voice that is warm, inspiring, gently informative, wryly compassionate, and occasionally calling us to task on matters both personal and political, intimate and universal. Great thinkers and ideas, literature, music and comments on popular culture are all woven with ease into the tapestry of the book. A former newspaper journalist, book editor and co-author of several non-fiction books, Neller says:
Shelley Neller's frank and lucid account of her journey shows that there is more to the world than meets the eye, that the universe is a benign place offering intuition to each of us and that we all need to cultivate more gratitude and hope. Love Letters from Mother Nature, with its promise of renewal and celebration of life on Earth, will cheer and encourage those looking to chart a new life course, to re-connect with nature, to revive their sense of optimism and awe, to be more creative or simply to be. Available from all good bookstores or online
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Some ideas addressed in Love Letters from Mother Nature
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