Listening To Nature - How To Deepen Your Awareness Of Nature - Softcover

Cornell, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1850150958 ISBN 13: 9781850150954

Publisher: Dawn Publications, 1987

Synopsis

Listening To Nature - How To Deepen Your Awareness Of Nature. Learn to appreciate Nature in its own environment with pictures.

About this title

About the Author:

Joseph Cornell is an internationally renowned author and founder of Sharing Nature Worldwide, one of the planet's most widely respected nature awareness programs. His first book, Sharing Nature with Children, “sparked a worldwide revolution in nature education” and has been published in twenty languages and sold half a million copies. He is the honorary president of Sharing Nature Association of Japan, which has 10,000 members and 35,000 trained leaders.

Mr. Cornell is the author of the Sharing Nature Book Series, used by millions of parents, educators, naturalists, and youth and religious leaders all over the world. Mr. Cornell's books, Listening to Nature and The Sky and Earth Touched Me, have inspired thousands of adults to deepen their relationship with nature.

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service selected Mr. Cornell's Sharing Nature with Children as one of the fifteen most influential books published since 1890 for connecting children and families to nature. His highly effective outdoor learning strategy, Flow Learning™, was featured by the U.S. National Park Service as one of five recommended learning theories, along with the works of Maria Montessori, Howard Gardner, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget.

Mr. Cornell's books have received the following prestigious awards:

Sharing Nature:
Winner, Silver Nautilus Award in the Animals & Nature category
Winner, Grand Prize: Indie Book Awards in the Non-Fiction category
Winner, Indie Book Award in the Science/Nature/Environment category
Winner, Indie Book Award in the Parenting/Family category
Winner, Silver Evergreen Medal in the Nature Conservation category
Winner, Green Book Festival Award in the How-To category

The Sky and Earth Touched Me:
Winner, Grand Prize for Non-Fiction, Next Generation Indie Book Awards
Winner, for Science/Nature/Environment category, Indie Book Awards
Gold Medal Winner for Best Environment/Ecology/Nature Book, IPPY Book Awards
Winner, for Spiritual category, Green Book Festival

Listening to Nature:
Winner, Book of the Year Izaak Walton League Pewter- North American Publishing Co. Gold Ink Award

John Muir: My Life with Nature:
Winner, ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Award, Non-Fiction Humane Heroes

Mr. Cornell has received many international awards for his Sharing Nature books and work. He received the prestigious Countess Sonja-Bernadotte Prize in Germany for his vast influence on environmental education in Central Europe. In 2011 Cornell was selected as one of the world's “100 most influential opinion leaders committed to the Environment” by the French organization, Les Anges Gardiens de la Planète.

Along with Jane Goodall and David Attenborough, Joseph Bharat Cornell is an Honorary Member of the Hungarian Society of Environmental Education.

Known for his warmth and joyful enthusiasm, Cornell “has a genius for finding the essence of a subject, explaining it in clear and compelling ways, and then giving the reader creative exercises to gain an actual experience.”

Joseph and his wife, Anandi, are senior ministers and residents of Ananda Village in Northern California.

For more information on Joseph Cornell's books and activities, please visit www.sharingnature.com.

Review:

Joseph Cornell has a gift for sensitizing others to their natural world and to their inner world.--Douglas Wood, author of Grandad's Prayers of the Earth "September 2013 ""

A work of art and of the heart!--Candace Sibcy, naturalist and nature photographer "October 2013 "

This book is a splendid masterpiece that captures the 'Oneness' we are all seeking to achieve with Nature.--Tom Brown, Jr., author of 'The Tracker' "September 2013 "

We too seldom take time to appreciate nature s beauty, wonder, and inspiration. Listening to Nature takes us back to this essence.--Vance Martin, Executive Director, World Wilderness Congress "September 2013 ""

Powerful quotes weave inspiration and wisdom, setting a context for Joseph Cornell s engaging practices to deepen our awareness, wonder, and joy.--Elizabeth Murray, author of Living Life In Full Bloom: 120 Practices to Deepen Your Passion, Creativity & Relationships"

About this edition

• Publisher: Dawn Publications
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 1850150958
• ISBN 13: 9781850150954
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96
• Illustrator: Hendrickson John