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Full Ecology: Repairing Our Relationship with the Natural World Kindle Edition

by Mary M. Clare (Author), Gary Ferguson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
How to confront the climate crisis without losing heart

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed in the face of global climate breakdown. So how might we develop the inner resolve to confront it? Full Ecology, a collaboration between social-cultural psychologist Mary M. Clare and longtime science writer Gary Ferguson, suggests a path forward. Breaking the modern impulse to see humans as separate from nature, Clare and Ferguson encourage us to learn from the “supremely methodical and highly improvisational” natural systems that touch our lives. True change, they argue, begins with us stopping and questioning assumptions about our place in the world. From this process of reflection, they offer us an alternative blueprint for acting in ecologically healthy ways, and for inspiring others to do the same. Rather than proposing a ten-step plan to save the earth, this book encourages a more elemental rethinking of our connections to nature, and of how such connections might be strengthened for the common good. Practical and poetic, scientific and spiritual, Full Ecology presents a strong, nourishing foundation for climate action.
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    129 pages
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    Heyday
  4. Publication date
    April 20, 2021
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"Beauty is a flame in the dark, leading us back to our place within the whole of ecology."

"Every morning you rise, and every night you go to sleep wrapped in relationships"

"Can you really find a line where you end and the rest of the world begins?"

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“Full Ecology is full of hope and wisdom. It is a much-needed guide to caring for ourselves and our community by caring for nature.”—ALICE WATERS

“Full Ecology is one of the most important books ever written on the climate crisis. Honest, eloquent, touching, free of acronyms and jargon, it goes straight to the heart of cause and cure, the profound disconnect from each other and the natural world. Mary Clare and Gary Ferguson enfold our hopes, fears, and confusion into the splendor and beauty of the natural world from where we can see, feel, and understand how to meet this extraordinary moment in human history.”—PAUL HAWKEN, editor of Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming and author of Blessed Unrest

“Mary M. Clare and Gary Ferguson offer an eloquent testament to this truth: to be disconnected from the rest of nature is to be alienated from our true selves. The health of humans, of other-than-human life, and of the planet itself comprise one health, indivisible.”—Richard Louv, author of Our Wild Calling and Last Child in the Woods

“At a time when we’re all so busy being ‘productive,’ separated from our very nature, these two lovers of the natural world have created a survivor’s guide. . . . Let it take you where you need to go, nurturing you along the rocky way.”—Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking and River of Fire

“A quick read that reinforces the seriousness of the moment, Full Ecology provides much to think about.”—BOOKLIST

“In this rapidly warming climate, Full Ecology reclaims for us an ancient, relationship-centered lifeway. This book is not so much a fire alarm as a tolling bell, inviting readers to pause and reflect and choose what is good for the earth, and thus what is profoundly good for ourselves.”—Rosanne Parry, author of A Wolf Called Wander and A Whale of the Wild

“Words flowing from the heart create what Fools Crow called ‘a hollow bone’ through which spirit can flow. Following this ancient path of the heart, these authors allow the earth’s soul to flow through, informing us humans that we are not separate. In healing the world’s soul, we heal humanity. Aho! Mi Takuye Oyacin; we are all related.”—Eduardo Duran, psychologist and author of Healing the Soul Wound

About the Author

Mary M. Clare and Gary Ferguson have each dedicated more than thirty years to exploring the world’s social and natural ecologies—Clare as a graduate professor of psychology and education, Ferguson as a nature and conservation-science writer. Their individual work has now come together in Full Ecology, a movement devoted to the idea that we can best serve both the natural and human world by reclaiming our human nature. Clare is a fellow in the American Psychological Association, and with her PhD in psychological and cultural studies she has published more than one hundred scholarly articles and two books. Ferguson is an award-winning and internationally recognized author of twenty-six books, most recently The Carry Home and The Eight Master Lessons of Nature. When not on the road or in the wilderness, the couple live in Bozeman, Montana.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08TMX2V6S
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Heyday; 1st edition (April 20, 2021)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 20, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.2 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 129 pages
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Gary Ferguson has written for a variety of national publications, including Vanity Fair and Orion, and is the author of 27 books on nature and science. His memoir "The Carry Home: Lessons from the American Wilderness," was described by The Los Angeles Times as "gorgeous," with "beauty on every page." Ferguson's most recent book, The Eight Master Lessons of Nature," will be released October 22, 2019 from Penguin Random House.

Gary was the 2002 Seigle Scholar at Washington University, St. Louis, served as the William Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Montana, and was a Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Idaho. Growing up in the corn and rust of northern Indiana, at age 9 Ferguson announced he was moving West, to the Rockies. He lives with his wife, social psychologist Dr. Mary Clare, at the edge of the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem.

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  • terry o'connor
    5.0 out of 5 stars Full Ecology is help for our planet in crisis.
    Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2022
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    Full Ecology is a primer for taking your child’s/grandchild’s hand and wondering aloud at just one beautiful aspect of our natural world - the moon rising, an autumn leaf falling, a robbin “worming”, etc. etc. And then do it again.
    Our planet is in crisis. Coming generations need help in understanding what’s at risk.
    The authors gave me inspiration to reassess how my family and I can both stop doing and start doing MORE.
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  • peffster
    5.0 out of 5 stars Seeing the BIG picture
    Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2021
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    Thank you Gary Ferguson and Mary Clare for this wonderful and insightful look at the interconnectedness of all things living on planet Earth. Everything and everyone is part of the whole, and Ferguson and Clare are masterful in helping the reader explore and ingest this reality. I came away from reading Full Ecology with a deeper understanding of all that goes on around me and how I am a vital part of the world's ecology. Most importantly I came away with a sense of renewed hope for life on Earth and a revitalized appreciation for the beauty and poetry that is the essence of our planet.
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  • Dan DeFigio
    5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent
    Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2022
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    There is a LOT of wisdom in this small book. Beautifully written, easy to digest, and thoroughly enjoyable from cover to cover.
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  • Margaret
    5.0 out of 5 stars Baby steps to action.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2021
    I only just got to your book FULL ECOLOGY last week, and read it over a series of several evenings.  As I understand your premise about humans being part of nature as a whole, we cannot afford to treat humans as favored entities on the planet.  Our kinship to everything on the planet, our natural dependency upon the ecosystems we are born into and thrive in, and WITH THE PLANET CONSTANTLY DEMONSTRATING HOW ALL ENTITIES IN AN ECOSYSTEM WORK TOGETHER FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL THINGS WITHIN THE ECOSYSTEM - we humans need to join in and participate in the mutuality of living here (and stop raping the planet for its resources to our advantage....since at some point it ceases being an advantage and can destroy the whole system.)  I also liked how you organized a response to that notion:  Stop, Ask, Act... giving us baby steps to take as we move into a stance of problem solving.  I think I can say I am mainly in the STOP phase, due to your wise instruction.  For now, at least I am stopping to look and see how things are and how I am part of it all.  Thanks for a really, really helpful book.
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  • Steve
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Most Important Book of Our Times
    Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2021
    If every policy maker in the world would just take a couple of hours to meditate over the lessons in this book, our future world would be one of beautiful balance, full of vibrant ecosystems, compassion, kindness, and happy creatures (including us humans). Mary and Gary's clarity and positive spirit comes forth on every page, and makes me feel like there is hope, actual hope for our future. It's not a stretch to say this book has affected my daily actions and thoughts deeply, and I am very grateful for this incredible gift the authors have given to this world. Thank you.
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  • Zoe
    5.0 out of 5 stars Research and personal insights drive this inspirational book
    Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2021
    We humans can rethink our relationship with animals and plants on planet earth. Mary M. Clare and Gary Ferguson meld research and their own insights into a great read.
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  • Hal
    5.0 out of 5 stars A True Gift
    Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2021
    Full Ecology was such a cozy read. It tackled huge issues but made me feel comfortable and heart happy while working through them.
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