Our Wild Calling, Richard Louv
Our Wild Calling, Richard Louv
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Our Wild Calling
How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives--and Save Theirs

Author: Richard Louv

Narrator: Graham Winton

Unabridged: 11 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/05/2019


Synopsis

"Richard Louv has done it again. A remarkable book that will help everyone break away from their fixed gaze at the screens that dominate our lives and remember instead that we are animals in a world of animals." -Bill McKibben, author of Falter Richard Louv's landmark book, Last Child in the Woods, inspired an international movement to connect children and nature. Now Louv redefines the future of human-animal coexistence. Our Wild Calling explores these powerful and mysterious bonds and how they can transform our mental, physical, and spiritual lives, serve as an antidote to the growing epidemic of human loneliness, and help us tap into the empathy required to preserve life on Earth. Louv interviews researchers, theologians, wildlife experts, indigenous healers, psychologists, and others to show how people are communicating with animals in ancient and new ways; how dogs can teach children ethical behavior; how animal-assisted therapy may yet transform the mental health field; and what role the human-animal relationship plays in our spiritual health. He reports on wildlife relocation and on how the growing populations of wild species in urban areas are blurring the lines between domestic and wild animals. Our Wild Calling makes the case for protecting, promoting, and creating a sustainable and shared habitat for all creatures-not out of fear, but out of love. Transformative and inspiring, this book points us toward what we all long for in the age of technology: real connection.

About Richard Louv

Richard Louv, recipient of the 2008 Audubon Medal, is the author of several books, including Last Child in the Woods and The Nature Principle. The chairman of the Children & Nature Network (www.cnaturenet.org), he is also honorary cochair of the National Forum on Children and Nature. He has written for the San Diego Union-Tribune, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and other newspapers and magazines. He has appeared on The Early Show, Good Morning America, Today, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, NPR's Morning Edition, Fresh Air, Talk of the Nation, and many other programs.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Erin on August 12, 2019

Backing up with scientific evidence what animal lovers have always instinctively known, author Richard Louv offers an intriguing read of how humans and other animals need each other in his latest, and timely, book. The anecdotes were my favorite parts - fascinating and often touching stories of huma......more

Goodreads review by Christie on September 06, 2019

I won a copy of this book via Algonquin Books’ Goodreads Giveaway under the premise that I would write an honest review. First off, this book has many things that I personally like in a book -science with sources listed, animals, and personal stories. However, I have to be honest that this was a tou......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on February 12, 2020

An easy-to-read overview of human-animal relationships that includes lots of nice discussions of animal minds and animal languages. It's a very lightweight book, and a fast read.......more

Goodreads review by Teresa on December 18, 2020

If you believe in the interconnection between all life, then you will be overjoyed to read this book. The author is speaking at Ground Rounds at Children’s Medical Center coming up. His work is pivotal!!......more

Goodreads review by Carl on January 09, 2021

3.5 Lots of information, but a bit too scattered for me. Louv cites study after study and recites conversation after conversation regarding animals and their influence on humans -- too many studies and too many conversations. The takeaway is: protecting wild animals, appreciating domesticated animal......more