our wild hearts: how deepening our bond with other animals can transform our lives--and save theirs

The exploiter's goal is money, profit the nurturer's goal is health-his land's health, his own, his family's, his community's, his country's.' I have my doubts that proponents of exploiting and extracting from nature will read this book and change their thinking.I will say that I didn't really understand the way the book's themes and chapters were organized. This nonfiction book describes our 'species loneliness' as we've disconnected from our fellow animals and wrongly thought of ourselves as separate from nature, and it suggests ways in which we can start to remedy that and heal both the natural world and ourselves from that disconnection.It was kind of 'preaching to the choir' in the sense summed up by this quote by writer Wendell Berry that he includes: 'The standard of the exploiter is efficiency the standard of the nurturer is to care. Transformative and inspiring, this audiobook points us toward what we all long for in the age of technology: real connection. Our Wild Calling makes the case for protecting, promoting, and creating a sustainable and shared habitat for all creatures - not out of fear, but out of love.

He reports on wildlife relocation and on how the growing populations of wild species in urban areas are blurring the lines between domestic and wild animals. Louv interviews researchers, theologians, wildlife experts, indigenous healers, psychologists, and others to show how people are communicating with animals in ancient and new ways how dogs can teach children ethical behavior how animal-assisted therapy may yet transform the mental health field and what role the human-animal relationship plays in our spiritual health.

Our Wild Calling explores these powerful and mysterious bonds and how they can transform our mental, physical, and spiritual lives, serve as an antidote to the growing epidemic of human loneliness, and help us tap into the empathy required to preserve life on Earth. Now Louv redefines the future of human-animal coexistence. Richard Louv's landmark book, Last Child in the Woods, inspired an international movement to connect children and nature.

Our wild hearts: how deepening our bond with other animals can transform our lives--and save theirs