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Title: Wild Comfort

Subtitle: The Solace of Nature

Author: Kathleen Dean Moore

Narrator: Linda Sherbert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-18-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Environment

Publisher's Summary:

In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to learn what the environment could teach her in her time of pain.

This audiobook is the record of her experiences. It's a stunning collection of carefully observed accounts of her life - tracking otters on the beach, cooking breakfast in the desert, canoeing in a snow squall, wading among migrating salmon in the dark - but it is also a profound meditation on the healing power of nature.

Members Reviews:

I wanted to like this book

I wanted to like this book. A friend recommended it, offering towering praise, for her it was inspiring. Maybe my mistake was getting the audio book, the voice undoubtedly played a large part in my dislike. There were awkward pauses as the narrator stumbled through some of the words, the writing never seemed to roll naturally off the tongue. Overall, it just wasn't for me. I found it rambling and repetitive. I would recommend skipping the audio book and just reading it, that would probably allow for a better experience.

"This is the (one of the) best books I have ever read

I keep finding myself saying to myself, "This is the best book I have ever read!" Perhaps this is hyperbole, but adding the words "one of the best" surely ranks it in my lifetime of reading.

Moore's insight into the details of the natural world she inhabits and explores, enhanced by her ability to describe and express it in words, truly astound. It's like she renders me a video camera, observing everything she sees, including a zoom lens and time lapse photography to watch nature unfold in my imagination. I can see the multicolored feather she picks out of the windrow on the beach to preserve in her pocket for the dark days of winter.

Moore's powers of observation become deep meditations inside the natural world, augmented by her ability to transfer that meditation to corollaries deep within human nature in a profoundly illuminating way - yes, full of light!

This book brings to mind Rumi's poem, "I Have Such a Teacher":

Last night my teacher taught me the lesson poverty, having nothing and wanting nothing.

I am naked

standing inside a mine of rubies,

clothed in red silk.

I absorb the shining,

and now I see the ocean,

billions of simultaneous

motions moving in me.

A circle of lovely, quiet people

becomes a ring on my finger.

Then the wind and thunder

of rain on the way.

I have such a teacher.

Great book!

This book is a series of short essays on what Moore calls the âsecular sacredâ that can be found in the wild environments she explores while trying to make sense of the deaths of loved ones. The essays are lyrically written with vivid, beautiful descriptions of the scenery Moore encounters.