Nature and Joy (New York Review Books Classics)
by Michael McCarthy
Recommended by Frank Chimero
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Nature has many gifts for us, but perhaps the greatest of them all is joy; the intense delight we can take in the natural world, in its beauty, in the wonder it can offer us, in the peace it can provide feelings stemming ultimately from our own unbreakable links to nature, which mean that we cannot be fully human if we are separate from it. In Th...
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