
Field Notes
The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
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Narrated by:
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Barry Lopez
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By:
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Barry Lopez
In these fictional stories, Lopez's characters must rediscover the wisdom and spiritual strength found in nature. Many of Lopez's vignettes are mystical and magical - a reckless desert sojourner is saved by birds; a botanist is led back to his family by wildflowers; a hunter is given a trapping lesson by wolverines.
Field Notes once again proves that Barry Lopez has a special talent for presenting the natural world as a responsive, emotional being and a sacred place - offering those attuned to its tempo the grace and hope needed to carry on. Another powerful contribution from the 1976 National Book Award winner.
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If you could sum up Field Notes in three words, what would they be?
exploration internal landscapeWhat other book might you compare Field Notes to and why?
Snow Leopard - explorationWhich character – as performed by Barry Lopez – was your favorite?
There are not characters as much as stories about people and places.Who was the most memorable character of Field Notes and why?
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I don’t know what else to say about this book and the other books that they are a MUST READ.
This book is beautifully narrated by the author.
The piano music pieces at the end of the stories is so soothing!!
My thanks to all involved, JK.
BEAUTIFUL
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Lopez, a new favorite of mine
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A mystical journey
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An intriguing introduction to Lopez.
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Lopez’ voice is wonderful and the composition with music between pieces works very well
Field notes
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Thoughtful, Beautiful Stories
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Author Narration the Best!
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The bidding began and the price quickly reached tens of thousands of dollars. A young man asked his father what happened?
It was the touch of the Master's Hand.
And so Barry brings such deep insights, perspective, emotion and clarity to a world most of us take for granted.
I so regret never having met the Master. He is now a part of the planet he so profoundly loved and brilliantly interpreted and described.
The touch of the Master's Hand
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This last phrase I borrow from how a friend aptly describes her abstract paintings. Areas of color that fall into organic, and thereby somehow not merely comfortable, but sometimes comforting, actually reassuring arrangements.
Arrangements that speak. Speaking as vista, geologic temple lands and spiraling petal & seed pattern impressed cultures attentive to such, to their surroundings. Reminding us, or to be honest enabling us to hear for the first time that this is what inspires native cultures to experience, what we moderns regard as mere dumb surroundings, as possessing living spirits.
From first word to last hovering sentence, these stories soaking in the readers mind, evoking sensations as aroma & flavor spread into oil, produce effects variously pleasing or sharp but one hopes medicinal.
The outdoor enthusiast, the student of woodcraft and "primitive" cultures will find familiar themes. The scientifically minded, the amateur ecologist will recognize themselves riding the paradox and dilemma of ancient blending with modern knowledge to varying results but one hopes ultimately into a restorative competence.
Modernity Grounding, Now & Again, in Nature
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