Living Up There

"Reality was not invented ten thousand years ago by humans." -- J. W.

$15.00

“What I find so rare and immediate in this journal is the self-grown quality of the knowledge . . .” – Reed Bye, from the Foreword

“I keep reading parts over again because I don’t want to finish it. It’a a world I delight to be inhabiting.” – Sally Dixon

“It was as moving, thoughtful, thought-producing, tearful in places, high-peaked, caring, respectful and lovely as it was beautiful.” – Tim Willoughby

“When I had to put it down, I couldn’t wait to pick it up again.” – Betsey Hassrick

“On onehand, I want to be a little jealous of the hermit’s life but on the other I realize that it’s an inside job all the way; that a parallel book could be written about my family life in NYC; it all comes down to the writer.” – Steve Clay

“Walker, the path
is your footprints, and nothing more.
Walker, there is no path.” — this is a rendition by Patricia Dunn of one verse of “Cantares,” a poem in Spanish by Antonio Machado:

“Caminante, son tus huellas,
El camino Y nada mas.
Caminante, no hay camino,
Se hacew camino al andar.”

“Jane Wodening’s forbears are Henry David Thoreau’s WALDEN and Annie Dillard’s PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK.” — Reed Bye

Why is it that when I
M on the mountain, I feel close to myself, to the earth, to the spirits of things?” – J. W.

“This book has an ability to put a face on growing things that one watches battling the odds of survival.” — Barbara Lawler, “The MountainEar”

ISBN:

978-1-887997-67-6

Copyright:

2009 Jane Wodening