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Title: Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds
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Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
List Price: $14.95
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| Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds by Chronicle Books Inspiring book for those who love nature, reflection, birding & sam keen | | Just a very special little book to have by a favorite chair or to tuck in a bag when waiting somewhere. As a world birder, mountainer, philosopher and someone constantly IN nature, this was an added treat to my collection of "reflection" books--no pedagogy here, just appreciation!! | | Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds by Chronicle Books Sightings with a different view | | From the brief introduction on the cover, I was expecting a different experience. A nature sighting is sacred, and can be compared to a religious experience, but not devoid of religion. The author is agnostic and I got the feeling that he was minimizing and discounting Christ in his nature sightings. I am NOT a holy roller, but as a practicing Christian and nature lover, I was turned off because I felt the message had more to do with the author's beliefs than the nature sightings. | | Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds by Chronicle Books quick and fun read | | Birder recipient immediately dived into it and it kept him occupied while everything else swirled around him---a good sign. | | Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds by Chronicle Books A lovely book | | According to Sam Keen, the author of this fine little book, birders are, "unusually susceptible to the emotion of awe." Perhaps that is why I like it so much. It is a little book about a large subject. The book is a search for wisdom. Mr. Keen has collected many moments from his life when birds opened for him vistas into metaphysical realities. Occasional sightings of birds opened what he calls the sacred to his view. Indigo Buntings, Cardinals, Turkey Vultures, Wild Turkeys, Mourning Doves, Owls and Wood Thrushes are just a few of the birds which have carried him-- and will carry his readers --to moments of joy. | | Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds by Chronicle Books Product Description | | Sam Keen, the New York Times best-selling author of Fire in the Belly, has spent a lifetime reflecting on nature. In Sightings, a collection of essays, bird watching forms the basis for observations spiritual and soulful, witty and wise. He describes his childhood ramblings in the silence of the Tennessee wilderness as feeling distinctly more spiritual than the hard pews of his grandmother's church. Later in life, the presumed extinction and subsequent rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker prompts a meditation on the nature of the sacred. Blessed with moments of beauty and the insight to recognize them as such, Keen translates the marvels of nature into the language of heart and soul. |
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