Presented here for the first time and for meditation and emulation
are the words and work of many environmental apostles. The words
and work of each apostle are designed to delight and inspire the
reader to begin or continue to lead a life of environmental action
for conservation and contemplation of nature for spiritual succor
in the age of climate change. All the usual suspects are here, such
as St. Francis, Rachel Carson, Aldo Leopold, John Muir, Henry David
Thoreau, and Judith Wright, but New Lives of the Saints emphasizes
some aspects of their words and work often ignored or overlooked,
such as Thoreau on swamps and Leopold on marshes. Also included are
some unusual and unexpected environmental apostles, such as Walter
Benjamin, Raymond Williams, Seamus Heaney, and Paul Virilio, all of
whom contributed to green thinking as this book shows. Other
environmentally apostolic writers, such as Walt Whitman, Sidney
Lanier, Lord Dunsany, H. P. Lovecraft, Felix Guattari and Kelly
Barnhill, are also discussed. Beginning with two environmentally
and animal friendly retellings of the legends of St. George and St.
Margaret involving dragons, the book goes on to devote a chapter
each to ten other environmental apostles as patron saints of a
special type of environment or of an approach to environmental
conservation and contemplation. These saints sing the song of the
earth, including its swamps, marshes, bogs, fens, national parks,
mountains, forests, oceans, seas, airs, rivers, reefs, trees,
cities, peoples, places, plants, animals, and so on. They provide
nurture for living a life of hope and symbiotic livelihood living
sacrally with the earth. New Lives of the Saints crosses the great
divide between fiction and non-fiction and mixes the genres of
story and essay. It is a ground-breaking work of environmental
counter-theology for the symbiocene, the hoped-for age superseding
the Anthropocene.
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