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Susan J. Tweit, a plant ecologist by training, traded fieldwork for writing when she realized she loved telling the stories in the data. Her thirteen books of creative non-fiction range from memoir to travel are united by the idea of “re-storying” the human-nature bond. Her writing has appeared in magazines and newspapers as diverse as Audubon, Popular Mechanics and the Los Angeles Times, and in Best American Nature Writing along with two dozen other anthologies. Her work has won awards including the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year, Sarton Women’s Books Award and the Colorado Book Award. She writes the popular “Cultivating Terraphilia” Substack newsletter, is an active and passionate public speaker, and has taught workshops across the country. A plant-geek and self-titled “camera slut”, she lives on Colorado’s rural West Slope, where big sagebrush perfumes the air. Terraphilia is her love language. Plants are her people.  Cultivating Terraphilia, her Substack newsletter, is read in all 50 states and 55 countries. 

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An inspirational gift book, Earthbound invites readers to rekindle their innate bond with the earth and its web of lives through weekly devotionals and mindfulness practices.

We are not individuals but ecosystems, yet as we have drifted farther from what Thoreau called “the actual world,” our physical, emotional, and spiritual health suffer.

A growing body of research shows that simple “nature exposure,” time spent outdoors, can ease ailments ranging from high blood pressure and ADHD to depression and a loss of empathy. Rekindling this cell-deep bond with Earth’s living community is essential to the health of both humanity and the planet. Author Susan J Tweit invites us to heal and revitalize our frenetic modern lives, and the planet itself, by restoring human wholeness through terraphilia: our innate connection to, and affection for, Earth and its web of life. To be human is to be part of nature.

The practice of terraphilia is neither difficult nor distant. It requires no special equipment or wilderness trek. The invitation lives in a nearby tree, the coo of city pigeons, or a single star piercing the night sky. A practice of daily, mindful connection to nature restores wonder, belonging, compassion, and purpose. Earthbound calls readers home to their essential humanity, and to a living Earth that depends on their return.