Peter Tompkins
Author of The Secret Life of NatureWe had a chat with him on Tuesday, August 26, 1997. You can read a transcript here.
In his long awaited follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller The Secret Life of Plants, Peter Tompkins presents the brilliant and lively world of nature spirits -- animate powers that are beyond our ordinary perception but profoundly influence our physical reality. In the new book, The Secret Life of Nature, Tompkins suggests that these natures spirits -- gnomes, fairies, nymphs -- are not only real, but that they are crucial transformers and manipulators of primordial energy within the natural world. These spirits, he says, develop growth in plants, assist in the rhythms of nature, and are intermediaries between humans and the world we live in. "Walking through the woods," writes Tompkins, "I do not see spirits, but I sense them all around."
The Secret Life of Nature is published by HarperCollins (1997, hardcover, $22.00)
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