Wolverine reviewed Speaking with nature by Sandra Ingerman
Small points of good buried in a mess of appropriation.
2 stars
I love the concept of this book - a series of chapters with two sections within each, one by each author and focusing on an animal, plant, or other parts of nature with similar messages (all while focusing on the feminine in nature). In practice, the book is a mess of appropriated indigenous spirituality with a few good points in each chapter that can be detangled. There are meditation & wildnerness practices which can be salvaged and are worth the book for me, and there are chapters on entities not often found within "nature" books (banana slug & glacial silt come to mind). Overall though, I feel this could have been vastly improved.