Best Books for Wiser Living
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April/May 2008
By Mother Earth News readers
Purchased in 1976, when I still lived in the city, it has taught me how to raise chickens, churn butter, make wine, make hand cream, remove ball point pen ink from a shirt, grow herbs, cook a to-die-for crepe and make freezer cookie dough. Inside the rolled up, stuck together pages of this book is all I need to know about living on the land.
Barbara Gillihan
Fredonia, Kentucky
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New Uses for the Same Old Sh*t
For many reasons, I love The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins. Viewing our human waste as a viable end product is a bold and insightful idea, and the author’s in-depth scientific study on the subject provides a foundation the rest of us can use.
I applaud Jenkins for bringing this wealth of information to the world in a lighthearted, well-written and superbly documented way.
Jo Crivellaro
Mountain Grove, Ontario
The Humanitarian Diet
My life has not been the same since reading Diet for a New America by John Robbins. This book opened my eyes to the horrors of the meat industry going unnoticed by the public; otherwise, how can we explain having allowed the animal cruelty described in this book?
Since reading this book, not only have I become a vegetarian, but I have started looking at other aspects of my life which affect the quality of life on Earth.
Kathy Pusey
Redlands, California
Finding Freedom in Simple Living
When my wife and I had been married for only a few months, we were working three jobs between us to pay for thousands in credit card debt. For us, happiness came through stuff, and stuff came through money.
Then I read Richard Foster’s Freedom of Simplicity. Foster, a Quaker, writes of his faith, but also of responsibilities to society, the environment and ourselves. He points to the bondage brought on by our obsession with accumulating and consuming, and how it affects our humanity.
Since then, we have looked for new ways to make our lives less complicated. We’ve learned how to prune away the unnecessary. We’ve become givers. Our debt is nearly gone and I have the best job of all as a stay-at-home dad. I took up gardening, and now the only things I’m interested in accumulating are more leaves for the compost pile.
D.S. Gregory
Mayfield, Kentucky
The Field Guide as a Lifelong Companion
Arguably, no book has done more to connect me with the environment than Roger Tory Peterson’s A Field Guide to The Birds. Following the direction of my high school biology teacher, I purchased a list of all the birds in Kansas, with data on their relative abundance, and dutifully entered the letter and number coding for every species into the margins of my field guide, page by page. From that point on, my compass was set.
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