Elementals – The Series

We’re so pleased to share a new anthology series on the Elementals, a five-volume collection of essays, poetry, and stories that illuminate the dynamic relationships between people and place, human and nonhuman life, mind and the material world, and the living energies that make all life possible.

Published by the Center for Humans & Nature, and including an essay by our own Liz Beachy Gomez in the fifth volume, this series is a fascinating compilation of human experiences and thoughts on the roles of Fire, Earth, Water, and Air, in our lives.

“The exceptionally diverse, fascinating, fact-filled, evocative, and awe-inspiring reflections in Elementals shatters our everyday tendency to take for granted earth, air, water, and fire, whilst illuminating how these entities and forces create and enliven the biosphere. Read and be astonished.”

— _{Bron Taylor, author of Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future}

“As nurturing as earth, as dynamic as water, as ethereal as air, as illuminating as fire, the works collected in Elementals astound in their revelations about what it means to be human in an age of profound change. This is literary environmental writing at its best.”

_{— Amy Brady, author of Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—a Cool History of a Hot Commodity}

The Elementals series includes more than 90 contributors, including Tyson Yunkaporta, Lyanda Fern Lynn Haupt, Sean Hill, David George Haskell, and Robin Wall Kimmerer. If you’re interested in exploring the elements from a variety of different cultural perspectives, this is an excellent place to start. Learn more or order your copy of the Elementals series today below.

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From the Depths of Creation

If the idea of living more in harmony with the elements calls to you, you may also want to explore From the Depths of Creation: A Nature-Based Path to Healing. This book by Liz Beachy Gomez uncovers the vast wisdom held in within each of the four elements, and offers a framework for healing rooted in the natural world of the elements.