Resources For Exploring the Sacred in Nature

Books for the Journey

  • Sacred Nature:  Restoring Our Ancient Bond with Natural World by Karen Armstrong

  •  The Book of Nature:  The Astonishing Beauty of God's First Sacred Text by Barbara Mahan

  • Finding the Mother Tree:  Discoveirng Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard

  • Earth Gospel:  A Guide to Prayer for God's Creation by Sam Hamilton Poore

  • Blue Mountain:  A Spiritual Anthology Celebrating the Earth by F. Lynne Bachleda

  • Devotions by Mary Oliver

  • Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul:  Celtic WIsdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls  Know and Healing the World by John Phillip Newell

  • Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane

  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Podcasts on Nature and Us

  • Podcast: Outside/In A podcast from New Hampshire Public Radio pushing the boundaries of environmental journalism by exploring the intersection of pop culture, science, politics and nature.

  • Podcast: On Being hosted by Krista Tippett. Wisdom to replenish and orient in a tender, tumultuous time to be alive. Spiritual inquiry, science, art, social healing and poetry. Here’s an interview with Mary Oliver a prolific poet/mystic. Her work was inspired by the Cape Cod coastline, meadows, forest, ponds and by our more-than-human neighbors who call this peninsula of land ‘home’ Enjoy!

  • Podcast: for the wild hosted by Ayana Young is a slow media organization dedicated to land-based protection, co-liberation, and intersectional storytelling. Rooted in a paradigm shift away from human supremacy, endless growth, and consumerism. For the Wild highlights impactful stories and deeply-felt meaning making as balms for these times.