Elementals Published by Humans & Nature Press

My copy of Elementals has arrived. I am overwhelmed by its beauty, and struck by the difference between reading about a gorgeous and brilliantly conceived book in cyberspace and holding the actual physical copy in my hand. I have begun my journey through this astonishing work of great and passionate, elemental writing, and already thinking of all the people I want to give it to. Thank you this bible of the elements, and thank you Gavin van Horn, Bruce Jennings, Nickole Brown and Craig Santos Perez for letting me be a tiny part of this beautiful series.

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For readers of Sand Talk, Braiding Sweetgrass, and Sounds Wild and Broken

From the Center for Humans and Nature, publisher of the award-winning anthology series Kinship, comes a new anthology series on the Elementals, a five-volume collection of essays, poetry, and stories that illuminate the dynamic relationships between people and place, human and nonhuman life, mind and the material world, and the living energies that make all life possible.

For millennia, humans have sought to identify and understand the most essential aspects of nature. Of enduring fascination are the four material elements: Earth, Air, Water, and Fire. All living beings owe their own existence and well-being to these everlasting movements of matter and flows of energy. Inspired by these powerful categories, the Elementals series asks: What can the vital forces of Earth, Air, Water, and Fire teach us about being human in a more-than-human world?

Elementals explores how people from various cultures across the planet have worked with these powerful forces of change and regeneration to shape landscapes and deepen personal and place-based relationships. More than 90 contributors―including Tyson Yunkaporta, Lyanda Fern Lynn Haupt, Sean Hill, David George Haskell, and Robin Wall Kimmerer―invite readers to consider the ways the elementals flow through our relations with a more-than-human world.

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