The Wild Scribe: Words That Emerge When Human and Earth Voices Entwine: Findhorn Press
Autor Mary Reynolds Thompson Cuvânt înainte de Christina Baldwinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 noi 2026
• Teaches step-by-step writing practices that foster deep connection with place, seasonal rhythms, and the natural world
• Provides practical prompts and exercises designed to cultivate wild language, ecological literacy, and personal transformation
• Offers creative journaling techniques to process climate grief, restore belonging, and participate in the renewal of Earth
LISTEN DEEPLY to awaken your wild imagination and free your untamed voice as your visions comingle with the voice of the Earth. Let hawks, forests, childhood sanctuaries, and beloved animals shape the very rhythm of your words into authentic “wild language.”
Using writing as a tool for presence, healing, and ecological stewardship, Mary Reynolds Thompson shows how to move beyond observation and into relationship with the land. Drawing on decades of experience in teaching eco-writing and poetry therapy, she provides ten themed sessions for inspiration, each with stories and reflections, writing prompts, and exercises that address topics such as grounding, seasonal awareness, and animal embodiment. Character sketches of plants and animals, haiku and haibun writing, and reflective exercises for processing solastalgia and climate grief deepen the experience.
At its heart, The Wild Scribe invites us to open a dialogue with the more-than-human world. Blending the beauty of nature writing with the immediacy of guided practice, this book speaks to anyone who feels the ache of disconnection and the desire to participate in the renewal of Earth and self. It is a call to remember that when we rewild our words, we rewild the world within and around us.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798888506042
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 11 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Colecția Findhorn Press
Seria Findhorn Press
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 11 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Colecția Findhorn Press
Seria Findhorn Press
Notă biografică
Mary Reynolds Thompson, founder of Live Your Wild Soul Story, is an award-winning writer, internationally recognized speaker, and facilitator of journal and poetry therapy. A pioneer in the spiritual ecology movement and the author of The Way of the Wild Soul Woman, Mary lives in Marin County, California.
Extras
Session 1
Grounding
The nation is shattered
mountains and rivers remain.
~ Du Fu, “Spring View”
On this July day swallows swoop past, their aerial acrobatics accompanied by the percussion of woodpeckers. A deer and two fawns bound down the steep hill below my window. The air is light and soft. It is early morning, a time of liminality when the veil between worlds is thin. In these moments I am most connected to my creativity and to the wildness around me.
The long months of Covid were a time when the human world grew still. With fewer cars on the roads and planes in the sky, with less activity and motion, busyness and noise receded and nature came to the fore. You could hear the rustle of leaves and the quail in the underbrush. You could glimpse coyote pups playing in the meadows or scent the fragrance of rain in the cleaner air. Even in the city, the dawn chorus sang loud and true. The world we had effectively kept at bay through our constant activity found us again.
This book found me and was seeded during this strange time. More than ever, I wanted to guide people to take note of these rare encounters, to train themselves to experience the natural world as it burst into living color. And then to carry that awareness on, as and when we emerged from our Covid cocoon.
The Wild Scribe is for all those who want to explore their connection to nature or who want to better express their feelings for nature through writing. It’s for those who love to hike and write and to explore new trails, both with their feet and with their imaginations. It is for those who care passionately about Earth and fear for her (and our) future. It’s for those who know in their hearts that our connection to nature is key to shifting our consciousness to support a living, thriving planet. And it’s a resource for forest bathing guides, eco-therapists and eco-coaches, and teachers of journal or nature writing and poetry.
Keeping a nature journal is an age-old tradition particularly popular with the Victorians, who catalogued plants and animals with scientific precision. They added enormously to our knowledge of the natural world, and we owe them a debt of gratitude. But we live in different times.
It is not enough to observe nature, as vitally important as that remains; we need to pay attention to our kinship to nature and our relationship to the living world. We are not separate from nature, merely observing it at a distance; we are a subjective part of nature, writing about the community to which we belong and are integral. Simply put, we are an aspect of nature, writing about the natural world in which we have our part to play.
The effects of human activity on Earth’s systems are increasingly apparent. As the climate heats up and rivers dry up, as we confront a growing litany of alarming human-made disasters, it is urgent that we come back into deep and sacred communion with nature. Keeping a nature journal can help us in this vital work.
During Covid we were reminded that we live on a planet that still offers us pockets of wildness. Pigeons soared above our rooftops. Falling leaves marked the seasons, even as time was turned on its head. During the long, painful months of isolation, nature became a lifeline for many, a source of sanity essential to enduring grief, fear, and loneliness.
With retreat centers closed and travel grounded, I took my nature-writing class, “The Wild Scribe,” online. I’d taught the workshop in person for years, and now people from different corners of the world gathered on Zoom, hungry for community, creativity, and the encouragement to explore one of the few embodied relationships that remained open to them during lockdown: our relationship with place.
While lockdown prevented many of us from seeing our families, hanging out with our friends, even attending the hospital beds or funerals of loved ones, there was another energy and relationship crying out for attention. Whether carried on the wind or the swoosh of raven wings, we heard nature whispering to us: I am here, all around you. I have always been here. Are you ready to find out what we mean to each other?
The participants in my course coped with many different circumstances. Some were stuck in small apartments in crowded cities; others walked the streets outside their suburban homes or were free to tromp through the countryside. Whether nestled in the Berkshires or among the sheep-dappled hills of the Cotswolds, towered over by the mountains of Switzerland or the skyscrapers of New York, or trudging the rainy streets of Bristol, they longed to connect with and explore the living world. This was a profound freedom in the face of so many restrictions and stresses.
I’ve structured this book on that 10-month nature-writing course, which was offered through the UK’s Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking amid the pandemic. Each chapter explores a different aspect or quality of nature. Some focus on seasons, others on how we approach nature, still others on the emotions evoked by an animal, plant, or landscape. In turns playful and provocative, the writing prompts are designed to unearth spontaneous and surprising responses. If there’s one rule to this book, it is this: Wander. Follow your energy; dive into any assignments that capture your attention, in any order you like. As a forager of inspiration, you are tasked with picking the fruit that looks juiciest to you in the moment.
A Wild Scribe is not just a recorder of nature. We seek fresh language that forgoes mere observation of the natural world to embed us more deeply within it. I call this “wild language,” and it is about the magic that happens when the voice of nature commingles with our own. As you navigate this book, you will discover what it is to communicate from a rooted place, filled with wonder for the living, breathing world in which you are enfolded. Journaling in nature, you will journey into and discover your own inner wild.
As a facilitator of both poetry and journal therapy, I encourage you to respond to my prompts in either verse or prose. Feel free to switch back and forth—each one is powerful in how it connects you with nature, both inner and outer. And you don’t have to be an expert in either form. In fact, right now, throw out the rules of syntax and perfect grammar, especially if the need to be perfect holds you back.
A Wild Scribe cultivates authenticity and spontaneity. Throughout, I’ll be sharing writing by students to inspire varied ways you might approach the journal invitations. To keep these contributions true to their original voice, you’ll notice a mix of American and English spelling in these extracts. The extraordinary illustrations by Jo Smith, all created using natural dyes, are further invitations into enchantment.
There are many books on nature journaling. My bookshelves hold quite a few of them. But this book is different. My focus is on the connection between inner and outer nature, and the dissolution of the false divide between the two. This is nature journaling with a purpose: to have you become more of your authentic, wild, unbridled self—and in doing so, to live in a way that ends separation and integrates you into a whole being with nature.
Language and landscape are both filled with hidden treasures. These new approaches to writing will lead to fresh discoveries. Be adventurous as well as devoted. As often as you can, read aloud your entries in some wild place, to the trees, plants, and living creatures. Sense how they respond.
Remember that wild language is embodied, natural, authentic. Don’t try to write like someone else—a fern would never attempt to sing like a finch. Be yourself while also opening to the natural poetry of the world.
Grounding
The nation is shattered
mountains and rivers remain.
~ Du Fu, “Spring View”
On this July day swallows swoop past, their aerial acrobatics accompanied by the percussion of woodpeckers. A deer and two fawns bound down the steep hill below my window. The air is light and soft. It is early morning, a time of liminality when the veil between worlds is thin. In these moments I am most connected to my creativity and to the wildness around me.
The long months of Covid were a time when the human world grew still. With fewer cars on the roads and planes in the sky, with less activity and motion, busyness and noise receded and nature came to the fore. You could hear the rustle of leaves and the quail in the underbrush. You could glimpse coyote pups playing in the meadows or scent the fragrance of rain in the cleaner air. Even in the city, the dawn chorus sang loud and true. The world we had effectively kept at bay through our constant activity found us again.
This book found me and was seeded during this strange time. More than ever, I wanted to guide people to take note of these rare encounters, to train themselves to experience the natural world as it burst into living color. And then to carry that awareness on, as and when we emerged from our Covid cocoon.
The Wild Scribe is for all those who want to explore their connection to nature or who want to better express their feelings for nature through writing. It’s for those who love to hike and write and to explore new trails, both with their feet and with their imaginations. It is for those who care passionately about Earth and fear for her (and our) future. It’s for those who know in their hearts that our connection to nature is key to shifting our consciousness to support a living, thriving planet. And it’s a resource for forest bathing guides, eco-therapists and eco-coaches, and teachers of journal or nature writing and poetry.
Keeping a nature journal is an age-old tradition particularly popular with the Victorians, who catalogued plants and animals with scientific precision. They added enormously to our knowledge of the natural world, and we owe them a debt of gratitude. But we live in different times.
It is not enough to observe nature, as vitally important as that remains; we need to pay attention to our kinship to nature and our relationship to the living world. We are not separate from nature, merely observing it at a distance; we are a subjective part of nature, writing about the community to which we belong and are integral. Simply put, we are an aspect of nature, writing about the natural world in which we have our part to play.
The effects of human activity on Earth’s systems are increasingly apparent. As the climate heats up and rivers dry up, as we confront a growing litany of alarming human-made disasters, it is urgent that we come back into deep and sacred communion with nature. Keeping a nature journal can help us in this vital work.
During Covid we were reminded that we live on a planet that still offers us pockets of wildness. Pigeons soared above our rooftops. Falling leaves marked the seasons, even as time was turned on its head. During the long, painful months of isolation, nature became a lifeline for many, a source of sanity essential to enduring grief, fear, and loneliness.
With retreat centers closed and travel grounded, I took my nature-writing class, “The Wild Scribe,” online. I’d taught the workshop in person for years, and now people from different corners of the world gathered on Zoom, hungry for community, creativity, and the encouragement to explore one of the few embodied relationships that remained open to them during lockdown: our relationship with place.
While lockdown prevented many of us from seeing our families, hanging out with our friends, even attending the hospital beds or funerals of loved ones, there was another energy and relationship crying out for attention. Whether carried on the wind or the swoosh of raven wings, we heard nature whispering to us: I am here, all around you. I have always been here. Are you ready to find out what we mean to each other?
The participants in my course coped with many different circumstances. Some were stuck in small apartments in crowded cities; others walked the streets outside their suburban homes or were free to tromp through the countryside. Whether nestled in the Berkshires or among the sheep-dappled hills of the Cotswolds, towered over by the mountains of Switzerland or the skyscrapers of New York, or trudging the rainy streets of Bristol, they longed to connect with and explore the living world. This was a profound freedom in the face of so many restrictions and stresses.
I’ve structured this book on that 10-month nature-writing course, which was offered through the UK’s Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking amid the pandemic. Each chapter explores a different aspect or quality of nature. Some focus on seasons, others on how we approach nature, still others on the emotions evoked by an animal, plant, or landscape. In turns playful and provocative, the writing prompts are designed to unearth spontaneous and surprising responses. If there’s one rule to this book, it is this: Wander. Follow your energy; dive into any assignments that capture your attention, in any order you like. As a forager of inspiration, you are tasked with picking the fruit that looks juiciest to you in the moment.
A Wild Scribe is not just a recorder of nature. We seek fresh language that forgoes mere observation of the natural world to embed us more deeply within it. I call this “wild language,” and it is about the magic that happens when the voice of nature commingles with our own. As you navigate this book, you will discover what it is to communicate from a rooted place, filled with wonder for the living, breathing world in which you are enfolded. Journaling in nature, you will journey into and discover your own inner wild.
As a facilitator of both poetry and journal therapy, I encourage you to respond to my prompts in either verse or prose. Feel free to switch back and forth—each one is powerful in how it connects you with nature, both inner and outer. And you don’t have to be an expert in either form. In fact, right now, throw out the rules of syntax and perfect grammar, especially if the need to be perfect holds you back.
A Wild Scribe cultivates authenticity and spontaneity. Throughout, I’ll be sharing writing by students to inspire varied ways you might approach the journal invitations. To keep these contributions true to their original voice, you’ll notice a mix of American and English spelling in these extracts. The extraordinary illustrations by Jo Smith, all created using natural dyes, are further invitations into enchantment.
There are many books on nature journaling. My bookshelves hold quite a few of them. But this book is different. My focus is on the connection between inner and outer nature, and the dissolution of the false divide between the two. This is nature journaling with a purpose: to have you become more of your authentic, wild, unbridled self—and in doing so, to live in a way that ends separation and integrates you into a whole being with nature.
Language and landscape are both filled with hidden treasures. These new approaches to writing will lead to fresh discoveries. Be adventurous as well as devoted. As often as you can, read aloud your entries in some wild place, to the trees, plants, and living creatures. Sense how they respond.
Remember that wild language is embodied, natural, authentic. Don’t try to write like someone else—a fern would never attempt to sing like a finch. Be yourself while also opening to the natural poetry of the world.
Cuprins
Foreword by Christina Baldwin
Session 1: Grounding
1. A Word About Wild Language
2. Warming Up to the Blank Page
Session 2: The Place Where I Live
3. A Framed Landscape
4. If I Had to Leave This Place
5. Charting the Seasons
Session 3: Loss, Love, Longing
6. Solastalgia: The Loss of Home
7. The Magic of Names and Naming
8. Distilling Our Writing to Its Essence
The Haiku
The Haibun
9. Spring: The Saddest Noise, the Sweetest Noise
Session 4: Everything Is in Motion
10. Wandering and Wondering Barefoot
11. Walking Alone or with Others
12. Quests and Questions
Session 5: On the Trail of Enchantment
13. Walk in Beauty
14. Discovering Your Spirit Animal
15. Your Tale of Enchantment
Session 6: The Summer’s Day
16. Summers Past and Present
17. Seeking the Wild in Summer
18. Celebrating Summer Solstice in a World on Fire
Session 7: Listening to the Land
19. Embarking on a Metaphoray
20. Listen to the Music
Session 8: The Soul of Place
21. Genius Loci
22. The Places That Inhabit Us
23. Songs of Earth
Session 9: Peace, Play, Pleasure
24. Resting in the Arms of Nature
25. We Are Made for Play
26. A Joy That Leaps from Deep Wells
Session 10: Time and Imagination
27. Extinction Is Forever
28. Perspectives on Time
29. The Art of Hibernation
Epilogue: Closing the Circle
Appendix A: Wild Writing Seeds
Appendix B: 10 Touchstones of the Wild Scribe
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Illustrator
Session 1: Grounding
1. A Word About Wild Language
2. Warming Up to the Blank Page
Session 2: The Place Where I Live
3. A Framed Landscape
4. If I Had to Leave This Place
5. Charting the Seasons
Session 3: Loss, Love, Longing
6. Solastalgia: The Loss of Home
7. The Magic of Names and Naming
8. Distilling Our Writing to Its Essence
The Haiku
The Haibun
9. Spring: The Saddest Noise, the Sweetest Noise
Session 4: Everything Is in Motion
10. Wandering and Wondering Barefoot
11. Walking Alone or with Others
12. Quests and Questions
Session 5: On the Trail of Enchantment
13. Walk in Beauty
14. Discovering Your Spirit Animal
15. Your Tale of Enchantment
Session 6: The Summer’s Day
16. Summers Past and Present
17. Seeking the Wild in Summer
18. Celebrating Summer Solstice in a World on Fire
Session 7: Listening to the Land
19. Embarking on a Metaphoray
20. Listen to the Music
Session 8: The Soul of Place
21. Genius Loci
22. The Places That Inhabit Us
23. Songs of Earth
Session 9: Peace, Play, Pleasure
24. Resting in the Arms of Nature
25. We Are Made for Play
26. A Joy That Leaps from Deep Wells
Session 10: Time and Imagination
27. Extinction Is Forever
28. Perspectives on Time
29. The Art of Hibernation
Epilogue: Closing the Circle
Appendix A: Wild Writing Seeds
Appendix B: 10 Touchstones of the Wild Scribe
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Illustrator
Recenzii
“This fabulous book is a wild flight through the creative mind—yours and the Earth’s. Mary Reynolds Thompson combines philosophical insight, ecological wisdom, poetic awareness, and practical advice into a must-have guide to writing about a planet alive with imagination. The Wild Scribe connects us to our depths and vivifies our kinship with the oceans, cloudscapes, animals, and galaxies.”
“Mary Reynolds Thompson’s elegantly written book gives new life to the hallowed tradition of nature journal writing: an important, reflective, and moving practice of exploration and appreciation much needed in a time of constant distraction. Wild Writing invites writing as listening: to the elements, the seasons, the presence of place, and our innermost self. As Wild Scribes we find ourselves reentering the Great Conversation, back in creative relation with the more-than-human presences around us.”
“The Wild Scribe arrives at exactly the right moment—when the living world needs witnesses as much as it needs activists. Part guided writing practice, part chorus of voices, Mary Reynolds Thompson weaves her own writing with that of dozens of Wild Scribes responding to her prompts, creating a living anthology of human and Earth in conversation. Drawing on haiku, haibun, solastalgia, and the magic of naming, she shows us that Wild Writing is not mere observation but a way of grieving what is being lost, falling in love with what remains, and caring for a world that needs our words. For hikers, ecotherapists, poets, and anyone who has felt the urgency of putting the living world into language, this book is both compass and companion.”
“The Wild Scribe is more than a book on nature writing. It is an invitation and a guided journey into 'refugia,' the sacred murmurings of the mystical to be found in hollow trees, pockets of moss, and the sloshing of tidal waters. As these times of accelerated change and transformation continue to wash over the inter-webs, deep sustenance awaits where pen meets page meets sky. Mary Reynolds Thompson is your skillful guide on this extraordinary journey!”
“Thanks to this enchanting book, I have touched moments of awe among the trees. Mary Reynolds Thompson shows us how simple writing exercises can be a form of pure ecotherapy. The Wild Scribe is a beautifully written gift that I will cherish and return to—and recommend.”
“Imagine you’re holding a map, cleverly camouflaged as a book about writing. In these pages, you might find a nearly hidden trail, fringed with moss, fungi, or stone, marking a way toward greater entanglement of perception, experience, and expression with the living body of Earth. Mary Reynolds Thompson offers grounded reflections, practices, and prompts that help sink our roots and turn our ears toward the world’s wild language. The practices in this book will free the feral imagination of poets, journal-tenders, and other scribes so that even our human words might be elixir for our co-inhabitants in the community of Earth.”
“Mary Reynolds Thompson reminds us to listen to the essential voices that connect us to our deepest longings—the voices of the places of our lives. She shows us with tender clarity how to walk this deliciously nurturing path.”
“Mary Reynolds Thompson offers many pathways for us to immerse ourselves in Nature—writing exercises, Earth celebrations, finding a spirit animal. The story of her close encounter with a cougar was hairraising. And her personal journey with the healing power of nature is truly inspirational.”
“Mary Reynolds Thompson’s elegantly written book gives new life to the hallowed tradition of nature journal writing: an important, reflective, and moving practice of exploration and appreciation much needed in a time of constant distraction. Wild Writing invites writing as listening: to the elements, the seasons, the presence of place, and our innermost self. As Wild Scribes we find ourselves reentering the Great Conversation, back in creative relation with the more-than-human presences around us.”
“The Wild Scribe arrives at exactly the right moment—when the living world needs witnesses as much as it needs activists. Part guided writing practice, part chorus of voices, Mary Reynolds Thompson weaves her own writing with that of dozens of Wild Scribes responding to her prompts, creating a living anthology of human and Earth in conversation. Drawing on haiku, haibun, solastalgia, and the magic of naming, she shows us that Wild Writing is not mere observation but a way of grieving what is being lost, falling in love with what remains, and caring for a world that needs our words. For hikers, ecotherapists, poets, and anyone who has felt the urgency of putting the living world into language, this book is both compass and companion.”
“The Wild Scribe is more than a book on nature writing. It is an invitation and a guided journey into 'refugia,' the sacred murmurings of the mystical to be found in hollow trees, pockets of moss, and the sloshing of tidal waters. As these times of accelerated change and transformation continue to wash over the inter-webs, deep sustenance awaits where pen meets page meets sky. Mary Reynolds Thompson is your skillful guide on this extraordinary journey!”
“Thanks to this enchanting book, I have touched moments of awe among the trees. Mary Reynolds Thompson shows us how simple writing exercises can be a form of pure ecotherapy. The Wild Scribe is a beautifully written gift that I will cherish and return to—and recommend.”
“Imagine you’re holding a map, cleverly camouflaged as a book about writing. In these pages, you might find a nearly hidden trail, fringed with moss, fungi, or stone, marking a way toward greater entanglement of perception, experience, and expression with the living body of Earth. Mary Reynolds Thompson offers grounded reflections, practices, and prompts that help sink our roots and turn our ears toward the world’s wild language. The practices in this book will free the feral imagination of poets, journal-tenders, and other scribes so that even our human words might be elixir for our co-inhabitants in the community of Earth.”
“Mary Reynolds Thompson reminds us to listen to the essential voices that connect us to our deepest longings—the voices of the places of our lives. She shows us with tender clarity how to walk this deliciously nurturing path.”
“Mary Reynolds Thompson offers many pathways for us to immerse ourselves in Nature—writing exercises, Earth celebrations, finding a spirit animal. The story of her close encounter with a cougar was hairraising. And her personal journey with the healing power of nature is truly inspirational.”
Descriere
A transformative guide to reconnecting with nature through writing, presence, and ecological awareness