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books:

Light on Aging and Dying: Wise Words

3 reviews

Tilbury House Pub, 1995

World wisdom on aging and dying and living.
Helen Nearing's galaxy of quotations from the likes of Ghandi, Freidan, Woolf, Einstein, Wharton, and Lao Tzu (and scintillating many more) on the subject of aging and dying is somewhat like meditating under a summer sky's meteor shower, each new light a brilliant, breath-catcher. With this collection, this "study for eternity" (Nearing quoting Emerson), Nearing restores elements of wonder ...

Loving and Leaving the Good Life

9 reviews
Helen Nearing

Chelsea Green, 1993

A Wonderful & Memorable Recollection By Helen Nearing!
In today's youth-obsessed contemporary culture, it is a rare treat to be able to find a book so full of loving wisdom written by someone so involved socially, politically, and spiritually in the events of the 20th century. Therefore, I was enthralled in reading Helen Nearing's moving, absorbing and often quite disarming recollections and reflections on her life, both as an individual and as ...

The Good Life

29 reviews
Scott Nearing, Helen Nearing

Schocken, 1990

This book helped change my life
These books have inspired me to start my own farm and live a life of simplicity and hard work. I share some of the strong principals that Scott and Helen Nearing had. I only wish I had their courage. Once you have read their books do some research on Scott and Helen then you will learn why they were the way they were. Scott was a real Pain in the *** to a lot of folks prior to the great ...

Simple Food for the Good Life

13 reviews
Helen Nearing

Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1999

Not just a cookbook
Nearing explains straight off that there are too many cookbooks out there ranging from the simplest to the most outlandish fares. Hers are quite simple rarely using more then 3 ingredients and saving a lot of time in the kitchen in order to do more important things such as savoring life. These recipes are highly nutritious and come from such simple foods as potatos, rose hips, and turnips which ...

The Maple Sugar Book: Together With Remarks on Pioneering As a Way of Living in the Twentieth Century (The ...

1 review
Helen Nearing, Scott Nearing

Chelsea Green, 2000

Neat book
This book is a description of way the Nearings earned hard cash to sustain their homesteading project. When they first built their homestead in Vermont in the early 1930s, they thought they might make the cash income for purchasing things they couldn't grow on the farm by selling wood. However, they soon found themselves owners of a sugar maple bush, and the family who had been tapping the sap ...

Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely & Simply in a Troubled World

4 reviews
Helen Nearing, Scott Nearing

Schocken Books, 1987

Timeless advise
We own all of the books the Nearings wrote and this one is a gem. There are those who may think that what they did and wrote about from the 50's to the 70's has no bearings on todays world (2003) but nothing could be further from the truth. Their wisdom on building a stone home, organic garden, composting, and simply realizing that one doesn't need as much materialism as one may think is ...

The Foot Book: Holistic Guide to Footcare Using Reflexology, Massage, Diet, Exercise and Visualization

1 review
Devaki Berkson

Harper Perennial, 1992

excellent integrated healing book
The author's reverence for health and life shines through; the 1977 edition gets pulled off my shelf every year for a review, as it has for many years. Ms. Berkson was ahead of the wave by integrating reflexology, yoga,nutrition,herbology, acupuncture/acupupressure, and imagery/meditation -- a lovely synthesis from a loving spirit. I haven't seen the re-issued edition yet, but it may have ...

Good Life Album of Helen Scott Nearing

1 review
Helen Nearing

Social Science Inst, 1974

Great pictures
This book is a photographic album of Helen and Scott Nearing's 50 years together. The book is presented in roughly backwards chronological order, starting with two large sections covering their homesteads in Maine and Vermont. At the end of the book are short sections covering highlights of their world travels, their individual lives before they met, and their early childhood pictures. Some of ...

Continuing the Good Life

1 review
Helen Nearing, Scott Nearing

a nice package, well written, very enjoyable
Like the title says, it goes on from Living The Good Life. OK, it isn't exactly an inspiring classic, and sometimes comes accross as crotchety and over opinionated, but this is one remarkably pleasurable read! I am amazed at how efficiently and beautifully written it is. The subject matter, while fascinating to organically oriented soil lovers, could have been quite bloody boring. Yet, even if ...