Book Reviews


 
Book Review:
The Sacred Depths of Nature, 2nd Edition by Ursula Goodenough
– Book Review by Harold Wood, excerpted from Pantheist Vision. Vol. 40, No. 1, Spring. 2023. (PDF from box.com)
 
Book Review:
A Reluctant Pantheism: Discovering the Divine in Nature by Walt McLaughlin (from Pantheist Vision, Vol, 37, No. 3, Autumn, 2020. (PDF from box.com)
 
Book Reviews: Listening to Nature: How to Deepen Your Awareness of Nature by Joseph Cornell and How Nature Works: Regenerating Kinship with Planet Earth by Michael J.Cohen, Reviewed by Harold Wood – Vol. 9, No. 4, Pantheist Vision, December 1988, pg. 8.
 
Book Reviews: Nature’s Temple: Daily Wisdom from John Muir, compiled by Chris Highland, and With Beauty Before Me: An Inspirational Guide for Nature Walks, compiled by JosephCornell, by Harold Wood – Vol. 21, No. 4, Pantheist Vision, Winter Solstice, 2000, pg. 6. 
 
Book Reviews: Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing: Henry Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez by Scott Slovic (1992), and Pilgrims to the Wild:Everett Ruess, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Clarence King, Mary Austin by John P.O’Grady (1993), book reviews by Harold W. Wood, Jr. – Vol. 14, No. 3, Pantheist Vision,September, 1993
 

When God is Gone, Everything is Holy: The Making of a Religious Naturalist
 by Chet Raymo – Book Review by Harold Wood, in Pantheist Vision, Vol. 35, No. 4, Winter, 2018.

Book Review: God: A Human History, by Reza Aslan, Reviewed by Harold Wood – Vol., 35, No.2, Pantheist Vision, Summer, 2018

Book Review: A God That Could be Real: Spirituality, Science and the Future of our Planet byNancy Ellen Abrams, Reviewed by Harold Wood – Vol. 34, No. 3, Pantheist Vision, Fall, 2017

Book Review: Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness, by Michael P. Branch,Review by Editor (adapted from book summation) – Vol. 33, No. 2, Pantheist Vision, Summer,2016

The Wilderness World of John Muir, Edited by Edwin Way Teale, John Muir Exhibit, August, 2004.

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography, Compiled and annotated by William
F. Kimes and Maymie B. Kimes
, John Muir Exhibit, October, 2002.

John Muir in His Own Words, compiled and edited by Peter Browning, John Muir Exhibit

The Yosemite, by John Muir, photographs by Galen Rowell, in several Sierra Club Chapter newsletters, including the Yodeler and The Roadrunner (circa 1988, still online on the John Muir Exhibit.)

Book Summaries (Green Space, Green Time by Connie Barlow, The Sacred Earth by Jason Gardner, Editor, The Sacred Depths of Nature by Ursula Goodenough, Elements of Pantheism by Paul Harrison, The World of John Burroughs by Edward Kanze, Pantheism by Michael Levine, A Walk Through Time by Sidney Liebes et al, Songs for Earthlings ed. by JulieMiddleton, Skeptics and True Believers by Chet Raymo, The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki) ,in Special Issue: Reading for Pantheists, Vol. 20, No. 2, Pantheist Vision, Summer Solstice,1999

Book Review: There’s a Hair in My Dirt! by Gary Larson, reviewed by Harold W. Wood, Jr. – Vol.19, No. 3, Pantheist Vision, Autumn Equinox, 1998

“Magic or Religion: A Pantheist Response to Witchcraft“, Review of  The Spiral Dance by Starhawk, in The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy , Vol. 4, No. 3, (Summer, 1987)

Religious Experience and Ecological Responsibility, edited by Donald A. Crosby and Charley D. Hardwick
(New York: Peter Lang, 1996). Pantheist Vision, Vol. 17., No. 3, Autumnal Equinox, 1996.

Book Review: Natural High by John P. Wiley, Jr., Review by Harold W. Wood, Jr., – Vol 16, No.3, Pantheist Vision, Autumn Equinox, 1995, pg. 

Book Review: Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth/Healing the Mind
edited by Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner (S.F. Sierra Club Books, 1995).

Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing and Pilgrims to the Wild
Source: Pantheist Vision Vol. 14, No. 3, September, 1993

Book Review: The Earthsteward’s Handbook: The Sevenfold Path of Peace by Dana Parry andLila Forest, by Harold Wood – Vol, 12, No. 2, Pantheist Vision, June, 1991

Book Review: Earth Prayers (From Around the World, 365 Prayers, Poems and Invocations forHonoring the Earth), ed. by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon, Review by Harold Wood – Vol. 12, No. 3, Pantheist Vision, September, 1991.

A New Universalism for a New Century by A.J. Mattill, Jr. Source: Pantheist Vision , Vol. 11, No. 2, June, 1990.

Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing: Henry Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez by Scott Slovic (1992), and Pilgrims to the Wild: Everett Ruess, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Clarence King, Mary Austin by John P. O’Grady (1993)

Book Review: A New Universalism for a New Century by A.J. Mattill, Jr.

Book Review: Religious Experience and Ecological Responsibility edited by Donald A. Crosby and Charley D. Hardwick, Reviewed by Harold W. Wood, Jr. – Vol. 17, No. 3 (misnumbered as No. 2 on print cover) Pantheist Vision, (Autumn Equinox, mis-identified as Summer Solstice, 1996

Book Review: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, in – Vol. 16, No. 1, Pantheist Vision, Vernal Equinox, 1995

Book Review: Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth/ Healing the Mind edited by Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner  Reviewed by Harold W . Wood, Jr. – Vol. 17, No.2, Pantheist Vision, Summer Solstice, 1996, pg. 8.

Music Review: Sisters of the Dream by Ani Williams and Lisa Thiel, Reviewed by Harold Wood  – Vol. 16, No. 3, Pantheist Vision, Autumn Equinox, 1995, pg. 8.

Book Review: Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings by John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming, and Arne Naess, Review by Harold Wood – Vol. 9, No. 3, Pantheist Vision,August 1988

Book Review: Voyage of the Basset by James C. Christensen, Reviewed by Harold W. Wood,Jr. – Vol. 20, No. 3, Pantheist Vision, Autumnal Equinox, 1999

Book Review: Whatever Happened to Ecology by Stephanie Mills, Reviewed by Harold Wood -Vol. 10, No. 4, Pantheist Vision, December, 1989

Book Review: World Book Encyclopedia and Columbia Concise Encyclopedia – Entries onPantheism, reviewed by Harold W. Wood, Jr. – Vol. 19, No. 4, Pantheist Vision, SummerSolstice, 1998

Book Reviews – Revolutionaries by Carter Phipps, The Contemplative John Muir by Stephen K.Hatch, The Wisdom of John Muir compiled by Ann Rowthorn, Meditations of John Muir editedby Chris Highland, The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True by Richard Dawkinsand Dave McKean – Vol. 29, No. 3, Pantheist Vision, November, 2012

Book Reviews: Douglas Wood’s Making the World and Byrd Baylor’s I’m In Charge of Celebrations, reviewed by Harold Wood – Vol. 20, No. 1, Pantheist Vision, Spring Equinox, 1999

Book Review: The Integral Urban House, by the Farrallones Institute, Sierra Club Books, 1979,Reviewed by Harold Wood, – Vol. 2, No. 1, Pantheist Vision January-February, 1981