This edition of NATURE WISDOM is a more affordable, full-color version of an earlier book by the author, a veteran journalist and instructor in Humanities at Monterey Peninsula College. The book features a medley of essays about the perennial philosophy linking some unlikely bedfellows -- from Richard Henry Dana, Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London's 'crowd' to Gertrude Atherton, Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, Eric Barker, and Henry Miller -- whose lives were transformed under the spell of the alternately soft and violent landscape of California's Big Sur-Monterey coast. The opening...

CURIOUS JOURNEYS AND QUIXOTIC QUESTS BEYOND THE YOUTH OF OLD AGE (color edition) is a philosophic romp with a 'Don Quixote and Zorba the Greek-intoxicated' journalist who believes that life is about taking in, mulling over, and sharing what we learn. By means of essays, aphorisms, and some time-tested poetry -- in concert with photo impressions of poetic locales around the globe still unspoiled by industrial development -- the author shares some life-affirming wisdom, from Socrates to Existentialism and beyond, gleaned during a lifetime of questing. By example, she challenges readers to...